num_pages: 416
description: 1855. Failed entrepreneur Stanton Finch moves his family from Adelaide to the remote Coorong area of Southern Australia in pursuit of his dream to become a farmer.Housed in a driftwood cabin they try to make the best of their situation. The children roam the beautiful landscape of Salt Creek; visitors are rare but warmly welcomed; a local Indigenous boy becomes almost part of the family. Yet there are daily hardships and tensions with the Ngarrindjeri people they have displaced; disaster never seems far away.With Mrs Finch struggling to cope Hester their perceptive eldest daughter willingly takes on more responsibility. But as Hesters sense of duty grows so does a yearning to escape Salt Creek and make a new life of her own Lucy Treloar was born in Malaysia and educated in Melbourne England and Sweden. Awards for her writing include the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Salt Creek is her first novel.
language: None
title: Salt Creek
publisher: Picador Australia