Siddon Rock

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'When Macha Connor came home from the war she walked into town as naked as the day she was born, except for well-worn and shining boots, a dusty slouch hat, and the .303 rifle she held across her waist.' Macha patrols Siddon Rock by night, watching over the town's inhabitants: Brigid, Granna, and all of the Aberline clan; Alistair in Meakin's Haberdashery, with his fine sense of style; Sybil, scrubbing away at the bloodstains in her father's butcher shop; Reverend Siggy, afraid of the outback landscape and the district's magical saltpans; silent Nell with her wild dogs; publican Marg, always accompanied by a cloud of blue; and the new barman, Kelpie Crush. It is only when refugee Catalin Morgenstern and her young son Josis arrive in town that Macha realises there is nothing she can do to keep the townspeople safe.

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"A complex story that taps into five generations with great fluency. . . . Here is a writer whose talent is as magical as her genre." --Sydney Morning Herald
"The terrain is breathtakingly spare and tough and stunning. . . . This is a story that delights and shocks with its spiritual energy and refreshingly original voice." --Courier Mail
"With sprinklings of magic realism and a deft hand for compelling characters, Glenda Guest has created one of the loveliest debut novels I've read in a long while." --Bookseller+Publisher magazine

Author Bio

Glenda Guest lives in the Blue Mountains. This is her first novel.