'Fifteen-year-old Meika lives with her mother in the northern suburbs of Hobart, but spends many of her
weekends at her aunt's place in the Derwent Valley. It's here Meika
is told stories about her father, a man with a love for the wilderness
who left Australia for Nepal after Meika's mother left him fourteen years
earlier.When yet another affair ends for her, Meika's mum commits
suicide and Meika is left with the task of trying to unravel her mum's
last hours. What she finds out sends her life into a tailspin.
She gets involved with Hobart street kids and soon is in trouble with the
police. It's Meika's aunt - her guardian now - who assists her
again. She arranges for Meika to travel to the Everest Track in
Nepal to meet a father she has never seen before. What transpires on
the Everest Track, in
the Himalayas, forms the bulk of the story'. (Source: author's website.)
