Fiction
The Salt of Broken Tears by Michael Meehan
by John McLaren •
In one sense, the publisher’s blurb on this novel says it all.
On the edges of the salt lakes, in the harsh Mallee country of north-west Victoria in the 1920s, isolated soldier settler farms struggle to survive the dust and despair. There are few travellers: just the Debt Adjuster, or the Indian hawker Cabel Singh. Or a girl who turns up out of nowhere. Eileen. When Eileen disappears, a young boy sets out with his horse and pup to find her …
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