A gripping time-slip adventure, in the tradition of Ruth Park's
Playing Beatie Bow.
Beginning and ending, always the same, always now. The
game, the story, the riddle, hiding and seeking. Crow comes from this place; this
place comes from Crow. And Crow has work for you.'
Sadie isn't thrilled
when her mother drags her from the city to live in the country town of Boort.
But soon she starts making connections - connections with the country, with the
past, with two boys, Lachie and Walter, and, most surprisingly, with the ever-present
crows. When Sadie is tumbled back in time to view a terrible crime, she is pulled
into a strange mystery. Can Sadie, Walter and Lachie figure out a way to right
old wrongs, or will they be condemned to repeat them?
Kate Constable was
born in Victoria but spent much of her childhood in Papua New Guinea, without
television but within reach of a library where she 'inhaled' stories. She studied
Arts/Law at Melbourne University before working part-time for a record company
while she began her life as a writer. She has had stories published in Meanjin,
Island and other literary magazines. The Singer of All Songs, The Waterless Sea
and The Tenth Power form the Chanters of Tremaris series and were her first books,
published by Allen + Unwin with very successful overseas sales, followed by a
stand-alone novel set in the same world, The Taste of Lightning. She has also
written a junior fiction book, Cicada Summer, as well as two books for the popular
Girlfriend Fiction series - Always Mackenzie and Winter of Grace. Kate lives in
West Preston, Victoria, with her husband and two daughters.
'Crow
Country' is available now.
