TY  - BOOK
AU  - French,Jackie
TI  - The last dingo summer
T2  - The Matilda saga
SN  - 9781525287701
U1  - A823.4 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - [Sydney, N.S.W.]
PB  - Read How You Want
KW  - Murder
KW  - Investigation
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Vietnamese
KW  - Australia
KW  - Refugees
KW  - Secrecy
KW  - Country life
KW  - Nineteen seventies
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
KW  - Young adult fiction
KW  - Large type books
N1  - Regular print edition published: Sydney, NSW : Angus&Robertson, 2018; Adolescent
N2  - A body has been found in the burned-out wreckage of the church at Gibber's Creek - with older skeletons lying beneath it. The corpse is identified as that of Ignatius Mervyn, the man who attempted to kill Jed Kelly and her unborn child. Newcomer Fish Johnstone is drawn into the murder investigation, convinced that the local police are on the wrong track with their enquiries. But as she digs beneath the warm and welcoming surface of the Gibber's Creek community, more secrets emerge. And Fish must also face her own mystery - the sudden appearance and then disappearance of her father, a Vietnamese refugee she never knew. Set during the Indigenous rights and 'boat people' controversies of the late 1970s, this haunting story shows how love and kindness can create the courage to face the past
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