'INCIDENT AT REDDING CREEK is rich with tension, grim stoicism and heightened masculinity of the male characters and the isolation challenging the women left alone to survive the harshness of an unrelenting community of new settlements.
'In a time of growth and wonder of a new country finding its own identity and building its unique history. It captures the men and women of clipped sentences and straight-talking words of the no-nonsense attitude necessary to survive in the remote bush period of the 1890s Australian outback.
'A journey with drover’s who battle the harsh land to see the relationships shared between each other, between white man and Aborigine; between man and the land and, finally, the ultimate and unavoidable relationship with their own mortality.
'Suspended in remoteness, the drama of each character surviving and reacting to events shows how life for people today has not changed so much.... a spiritual journey of survival, love and loss...' (Publication summary)
