(Ebook) Sorry by Gail Jones ISBN 9781933372556, 1933372559

(Ebook) Sorry by Gail Jones ISBN 9781933372556, 1933372559

Through this exquisite story of a young girl's survival against the odds, Gail Jones explores the values of friendship, loyalty and sacrifice with a skill that has already earned her numerous accolades for her previous novels Dreams of Speaking and Sixty Lights.“Jones has a marvellous ear for language...a novelist who deserves to be celebrated.” - The TelegraphThis is a story that can only be told in a whisper... In the remote outback of North-west Australia, English anthropologist Nicholas Keene and his wife Stella raise a curious child, Perdita. Her childhood is far from ordinary; a shack in the wilderness, with a distant father burying himself in books and an unstable mother whose knowledge of Shakespeare forms the backbone of the girl's limited education. Emotionally adrift, Perdita develops a friendship with an Aboriginal girl, Mary, with whom she will share a very special bond. She appears content with her unusual family life in this remote corner of the globe until Nicholas Keane is discovered murdered. "Set in outback Western Australia during the Second World War, Gail Jones’ Sorry explores the strange, intense, deadly conformation of a ‘ruined family’... There is some prospect of reconciliation between individuals and races in this unusual, disturbing, highly-wrought fiction."  -  Judges, Prime Ministers Literary Awards