Sorry / Gail Jones.
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TextPublication details: North Sydney, N.S.W. : Vintage Books, 2007Description: 218 p. ; 21 cmISBN: 9781741669008 (pbk.)Subject(s): Anthropologists -- Australia -- Fiction | Children of anthropologists -- Australia -- Fiction | Social isolation -- Australia -- Fiction | Mothers -- Mental health -- Fiction | Australia -- Social conditions -- FictionDDC classification: A823.3 Summary: 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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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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