AustLit

'I'm nobody much That's the way Dougy sees himself. Struggling at school, Dougy is quiet. He watches more than he speaks. His siblings, Raymond and Gracey, are the one with the talent- his brother a star footballer and his sister just picked for the state athletic championships. When racial tensions engulf their lonely town in the Australian outback, madness grips and hot-headed men give way to their fears. And waiting in the rising river waters lurks something even more dangerous. Death is stalking Dougy's sister, Gracey, unless he can save her. Can a nobody stand against such forces? Is there more to Dougy than even he knows?' (Publication summary)

'Angela and Gracey. Friends forever. An easy promise to make but a harder one to keep. 

'Especially when your best friend feels torn between you and her Aboriginal world. Yet Gracey doesn’t seem to know what that world means to her. Angela would help her if she could, but there are places she can’t go, feelings she can’t share. 

'Then Angela’s comfortable certainties are challenged in a way she can scarcely believe. Did her own grandfather betray Gracey’s people? Will the answer kill their struggling friendship? ' 
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