The voices
By: Susan Elderkin.
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
Subjects: Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction; Teenage boys -- Fiction; Wounds and injuries -- Patients -- Fiction; Hospital patients -- Fiction; Race relations -- Fiction; Young men -- Fiction; Deserts -- Fiction; Nurses -- Fiction; Australia -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "In the remote, blood-red landscape of the Australian bush, thirteen-year-old Billy Saint hears the haunting song of an Aboriginal girl. The song tugs at something deep, something larger and more powerful than himself. She has sung Billy up - and he is destined to love her for ever." "In an Alice Springs hospital ten years later, recovering from gruesome wounds of mysterious origin, Billy attempts to explain the voices in his head. But only Cecily, the Aboriginal nurse, will listen. What unravels is a mesmerising account of the relationship between a man, the land he loves, and the spirits of the country, struggling to be heard before it's too late."--BOOK JACKET.