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In the remote outback of North-West Australia, English anthropologist Nicholas Keene and his wife Stella raise a curious child, Perdita. Her upbringing 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 Keene is discovered murdered.

Gail Jones

teaches literature, cinema and cultural studies at the University of Western Australia. She is the author of Sixty Lights which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and Dreams of Speaking which was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. One previous novel, Black Mirror and two collections of short stories have been published in Australia and she has received numerous literary awards for these.