TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jones,Gail
TI  - Sorry
SN  - 9781741669008 (pbk.)
U1  - A823.3 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - North Sydney, N.S.W.
PB  - Vintage Books
KW  - Anthropologists
KW  - Australia
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Children of anthropologists
KW  - Social isolation
KW  - Mothers
KW  - Mental health
KW  - Social conditions
N2  - 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
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