Standing Water - Softcover

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When Dom Connor returns to the Western Australian Wheatbelt for his mother's funeral after eight years away, he is shocked to find a region on the verge of collapse, devastated by drought and salinity.  The family farm his brother Neal has run since he was seventeen is close to ruin. For Neal's wife, Hester, the farm has been a sanctuary, a haven from her troubled past.  Leaving is unthinkable, even as Neal's behaviour becomes frighteningly unpredictable.  Dom, drawn to Hester, wants to help.  But when Andy turns up - a link with the past for both Hester and Dom - his arrival threatens to explode an already highly-charged situation.' Long-held secrets are exposed and emotions drawn to the surface; change is inevitable.   Not everyone can survive it. 'A completely engaging and particularly vivid story about friends and family, love and death, set, mostly, in the brutally harsh outback...The setting is as vivid as the principal characters...This is very impressive, highly accomplished stuff.  Exceptional.' Henry Sutton  Winner of the Yeovil Literary Prize 2010 (Betty Bolingbroke-Kent Award)

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