This story is compelling reading and incorporates a true old-fashioned love story with the Australian outback. One of those books where any interruption was an annoyance.(see review)Peter Harrison has spent the last 11 years drifting around Outback Australia, drowning in a quagmire of guilt. The guilt of leaving his childhood sweetheart behind and the guilt of not being with his father when his mother died.
He returns home and his life becomes more complicated. The woman he loves, is still in love with him but is married to another man.
Devastation takes the place of a moment of joy, and Peter returns to the only solace he knows; hard work.
Again Peter finds himself in the outback. He is tempted when on arriving at a one property he finds he knows the wife of the owner who takes a liking to him. He is about to move on but a natural disaster maroons him and leaves him with a duty compelled by the bushmans code and the temtation of a woman with her own ideas on romance.
When Peter finally returns from the bush a second time, he finds that his love has left town for the city, to escape the retribution of her husband.
Peters search for Lyn and her children, take him to the city, a place in which he flounders until finally he heads back to the outback.
When Lyn's vindictive husband finds her, beats her and absconds with the children, Lyn decides to find Peter. Her Journey takes her into the wilds of outback Australia, a journey through heat and dust and almost the loss of her life. A brief encounter with a Tribal Aboriginal elder saves her from death and reunites her with Peter, but the children are still missing.
Join Lyn and Peter in their quest to recover her children, and meet Ronny an Aboriginal boy searching for his heritage.
The children have run away from their father but find themselves lost in the inhospitable country of the far west. They find Ronny, who with his inherent instinct for survival brings them across hundreds of miles of wildernes to their mother, in Australias biggest city, Sydney.
From cattle camps in the desolation of the Outback, across half the country by Road Train, on foot and horseback, this story will keep you enthralled to the final surprising conclusion.
