An arrestingly original story from a master storyteller, with a historical Australian setting.
But the arrival of a new station assistant, Quartz Hogg, brings Comity and her father sharply back down to earth..
She dreams of a very different life, and sends letters full of her made up adventures to her grandmother and snooty aunt.
Comity Pinny is the daughter of the Stationmaster of the Kinkindele Repeater Station, and her mother has died of a snakebite.
An arrestingly original story from a master storyteller, with a historical Australian setting