'When Ilcarrie – Carrie – was taken from Peedamia sheep station to the Mount Carey mission, it was the second time in her young life that she’d forcibly lost her parents. Each time marked a shift that meant her life would never be the same.
'1930s Western Australia was also a world in shift. A world of pastoralists, prospectors, missionaries and warriors. It was a world of droughts, floods, violence and death, but also one of life, love and births. Over Carrie’s life she will have to learn to embrace these many aspects of her own life and the tough, but beautiful, world she lives in.
'This is an epic novel, following Carrie and her family – both European and Aboriginal – over 20 years from the wooden homesteads of sheep stations to the religious missions to the mia-mias of the First Nations people.' (Publication summary)
