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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.