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Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Salt Creek about?
"Salt Creek introduces a capacious talent" The Australian "... written with a profound respect for history: with an understanding that beyond a certain point, the past and its people are unknowable." Sydney Morning Herald From the winner of the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize (Pacific Region) and the 2013 Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award Some things collapse slow, and cannot always be rebuilt, and even if a thing can be remade it will never be as it was. Salt Creek, 1855, lies at the far reaches of the remote, beautiful and inhospitable coastal region, the Coorong, in the new province of South Australia. The area, just opened to graziers willing to chance their luck, becomes home to Stanton Finch and his large family, including fifteen-year-old Hester Finch. Once wealthy political activists, the Finch family has fallen on hard times. Cut adrift from the polite society they were raised to...
Who reads Salt Creek?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Lucy Treloar
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan Australia
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Rating
- 4.04 / 5 (149 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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