Jones, Gail,  1955- <br/><br/>
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Gail Jones. 
 - North Sydney, N.S.W. :  Vintage Books,  2007. 
 - 218 p. ;  21 cm. 
<br/><br/> PREMIER'S SUMMER READING CHALLENGE. In the remote outback of Western Australia during World War II, English anthropologist Nicholas Keene and his wife, Stella, raise a lonely child, Perdita. Her upbringing is far from ordinary: in a shack in the wilderness, with a distant father burying himself in books and an unstable mother whose knowledge of Shakespeare forms the backbone of the girl's limited education. Emotionally adrift, Perdita becomes friends with a deaf and mute boy, Billy, and an Aboriginal girl, Mary. Perdita and Mary come to call one another sister and to share a very special bond. They are content with life in this remote corner of the globe, until a terrible event lays waste to their lives. Through this exquisite story of Perdita's troubled childhood, Gail Jones explores the values of friendship, loyalty and sacrifice. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781741669008 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> Random House Australia, 20 Alfred St, Milsons Point NSW 2061 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Anthropologists--Australia--Fiction.<br/>Children of anthropologists--Australia--Fiction.<br/>Social isolation--Australia--Fiction.<br/>Mothers--Mental health--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Australia--Social conditions--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>A823.3