'Eddie Skinner has escaped his miserable fishing home town of Hull, is in love with Charlotte Stephenson and plays polo on the sandy wastes of the new river-mouth town of Fremantle. But when the Governor of the Swan River Settlement sends his North East Fusiliers regiment to attack the Binjareb Nyungar people, Eddie's world collapses. He loses his lover, his freedom and his dream of becoming a yeoman farmer. He spends years as a fugitive and a prisoner in colonial jails but survives it all to take up a lifestyle he could never have imagined as a twenty-three-year-old colonial trooper.' (Publisher's website)
