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An epic tale of unsettlement, history, myth, art and love – and of a small boy lost in the Australian desert from the prize-winning author of The Night Guest and The High Places. \n\nIn September 1883, in a small town in the South Australian outback, six-year-old Denny Wallace goes missing. \n\nAs a dust storm sweeps across the landscape, the entire community is caught up in the search. Scouring the desert and mountains, the residents of Fairly – newlyweds, farmers, mothers, artists, Indigenous trackers, cameleers, policemen – confront their relationships with each other and with the ancient land they inhabit. A land haunted by many gods – the sun among them, rising and falling on each day in which Denny could be found, or lost forever.
Fiona McFarlane's first novel, The Night Guest, won several prizes including the Voss Literary Prize and New South Wales Premier's Award, and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction and Miles Franklin Literary Award among others. She is also the author of a short-story collection, The High Places, which won the International Dylan Thomas Prize. Her stories have appeared in the New Yorker, Zoetrope: All-Story, and Best Australian Stories. McFarlane grew up in Sydney and now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.
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