Stillwater Creek

Alison Booth

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Bantam
04 January 2011

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Australian Fiction

Alison Booth's dazzling debut, set in a beautiful coastal town of NSW, is an unforgettable, heart-warming novel about love and loss, betrayal and hope...

Alison Booth's dazzling debut, set in a beautiful coastal town of NSW, is an unforgettable, heart-warming novel about love and loss, betrayal and hope...

It's 1957 and, after the death of her husband, pianist Ilona Talivaldis and her nine-year-old daughter Zidra, travel to the remote coastal town of Jingera in New South Wales.

Ilona, a concentration camp survivor from Latvia, is searching for peace and the opportunity to start anew. In her beautiful vine-covered cottage on the edge of the lagoon, she has plans to set herself up as a piano teacher.

The weeks pass, and slowly mother and daughter get to know the townsfolk - including kind-hearted butcher George Cadwallader, who is forever gazing at the stars; his son, Jim, a boy wise beyond his years; Peter Vincent, former wartime pilot and prisoner-of-war; and Cherry Bates, the publican's wife who is about to make a horrifying discovery...

For Jingera is not quite the utopia Ilona imagines it to be - and at risk is the one thing Ilona holds dear...

By: Alison Booth
Imprint: Bantam
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 133mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 358g
ISBN: 9781864711257
ISBN 10: 1864711256
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 04 January 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alison Booth is the author of The Indigo Sky.

Reviews for Stillwater Creek

"""A mythical town and its people are brought beautifully to life . . . a really lovely book."" --Sunday Telegraph ""A story that lingers long in the imagination."" --Debra Adelaide, author, The Household Guide to Dying"