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This is a story that can only be told in a whisper... In the remote outback of Western Australia, English anthropologist Nicholas Keene and his wife Stella raise a curious child, Perdita. Her childhood is far from ordinary; 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 develops a friendship with an Aboriginal girl, Mary, with whom she will share a very special bond. She appears content with her unusual family life in this remote corner of the globe until Nicholas Keane is discovered murdered...
- Author Gail Jones
- ISBN13 9780099507093
- ISBN10 0099507099
- Pages 218
- Published 2026
- Fecha de publicación 05/05/2026
- Language German, French
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Sorry (German, French)
- By
- Gail Jones
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- Vintage (2026)
- 9780099507093



