The Salt of Broken Tears
Vintage, $17.95 pb, 297 pp, 0091839130
The Salt of Broken Tears by Michael Meehan
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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The Salt of Broken Tears
by Michael Meehan
Vintage, $17.95 pb, 297 pp, 0091839130
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