A fringe of leaves
By: Patrick White.
Publisher: Cape
Published: 1976
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
Description: Set in Australia in the 1840's. Returning home to England from Van Dieman's Land, the ship is wrecked on the Queensland coast and Mrs. Roxburgh is taken prisoner by a tribe of aborigines, along with the rest of the crew. In the course of her escape, she is torn by conflicting loyalties - to her dead husband, to her rescuer, to her own and to her adoptive class.