Authors: Kerry McGinnis
Gathering background for Sara's story involved a journey through the desert and I would like to thank Lyn Conway of Kings Creek Station, Northern Territory, for her willingness to answer my questions about road conditions in the area and other historical information from the seventies that I have used in this book.
Also my grateful thanks to the many people at Penguin Random House who helped in the preparation of the manuscript, most notably Ali Watts and Clementine Edwards. What writer wouldn't be lost without editors? Thanks heaps, everyone.
Kerry McGinnis was born in Adelaide and at the age of twelve took up a life of droving with her father and four siblings. The family travelled extensively across the Northern Territory and Queensland before settling on a station in the Gulf Country. Kerry has worked as a shepherd, droving hand, gardener, stockcamp and station cook, eventually running a property at Bowthorn, near Mt Isa. She is the author of two volumes of memoir,
Pieces of Blue
and
Heart Country
, and the bestselling novels
The Waddi Tree
,
Wildhorse Creek, Mallee Sky and Tracking North
. Kerry now lives in Bundaberg.
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First published by Penguin Random House Australia Pty Ltd, 2016
Text copyright © Kerry McGinnis, 2016
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Text design by Samantha Jayaweera © Penguin Random House Australia Pty Ltd
Cover photographs: Background © Chris Hakanson;
Girl: Oleh Slobodeniuk/Getty Images
ISBN: 978-1-76014-047-2
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