Book description
Brumby Plains is an isolated place, and the outside world doesn't
intrude much here. But when Sam and George discover a refugee child
washed up on the shores of their buffalo station, the rest of the world
is brought a lot closer. An accident has taken Mac and Sarah far away,
and Uncle Mungo has strong views about refugees, so the two brothers
hide the child while they work out what to do. Sam discovers that it's a
lot harder to stand up for what you believe in than to follow the crowd.
Joanne van Os was born in 1955, and grew up in Melbourne. Her first
book, OUTBACK HEART, is a best-selling memoir about life with her first
husband, the 'Real Crocodile Dundee' Rod Ansell, mustering wild cattle
and buffalo and living a 19th century lifestyle in remote parts of the
Northern Territory, and his tragic end in 1999. She followed this book
with three children's novels, all set in the far north of Australia and
written for the 10 - 14 age group. She lives with her husband Lex
Silvester on a yacht in Darwin, NT, and continues to write. Her most
recent novel, THE SECRET OF THE LONELY ISLES, was published in February
2011.
