Cirrus@Austlit

'What does eleven year old Erin tell her small brother when he says animals are talking to him. She tells him to stop being so silly. There was no way lizards and roosters could talk to him! That also included the alligator their grandmother told him lived in their well, ready to jump out to bite off his head if he didn't keep away from it!

'It wasn't as though Erin’s life wasn't bad enough with her father risking his life fighting in New Guinea. War, Erin decided, was a terrible thing. Sometimes school wasn't all that wonderful either, so it just as well Erin had Aidan to befriend her.

'There was something special about ragamuffin Aidan. It was why she loved him.' (Publication summary)

'What was it that kept eleven year old Zoe riding her bike along Loftus Lane to Glengarry, a farm not too far from Morset, a small country town where she was holidaying with her grandmother?

'It certainly wouldn’t have been sour faced Meg or her miserable husband Logan who managed the farm. More likely it was Jonah, the lonely boy who spent much of his time sitting behind his easel on the verandah, painting.

'"Come back to Glengarry," he begged Zoe.

'"I will," she promised, suspecting there was something strange going on at Glengarry and determined to discover what it was. Her grandmother had told her to stay away from those people. But when did Zoe ever listen?' (Publication summary)