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The Styx

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Sophie can’t walk or talk, but behind her disability hides a keen intelligence. Living on The Styx River cattle station with her father and a nanny, Sophie is acutely aware that she is a non-person. Sophie feels as voiceless and isolated as the wallabies of The Wall, an eerie wilderness of basalt lava tubes forming a natural stone labyrinth that protects its remote lushness from anyone foolish enough to wander in. Sophie’s father and his “cronies” plot to build a multi-million dollar tourist resort in The Wall. The development will only go ahead if the rare wallabies are already extinct. But they don’t realise Sophie has heard their plans to hire roo shooters to help nature along. With the aid of computer technology, a desperate Sophie writes Silent Scream, an anonymous blog that reveals the threat. When scientists commissioned to find evidence of the wallabies’ existence go missing, the rescuers appeal to Silent Scream for help. Raising awareness is one thing, but how can one impossibly disabled girl, who can barely help herself, help save the lives of others?

Author Biography:

Patricia Holland was born in Liverpool, England, but has lived in Australia since the age of five, in Melbourne and on farms and cattle stations in Central and North Queensland. She now teaches at a secondary college and lives in a coastal town near Yeppoon in Central Queensland. Patricia's publications include: journalism articles in magazines and newspapers, including Queensland Country Life, Outback Magazine, National Farmer, Townsville Bulletin, The Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton), and The Northern Miner (Charters Towers); short stories in Idiom magazine; and a children’s book, Patch the Australian Cattle Dog (1999), which won a regional education award. Patricia's first novel, The Styx, is dedicated to the memory of her eldest daughter, Sophie, who suffered from Rett Syndrome and died when she was seven years old. Earlier drafts of the manuscript were selected for Hachette’s Manuscript Development Program in 2015 and Legend Press’s Luke Bitmead Bursary in which it placed third in 2016.
Release date Australia
October 4th, 2017
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Pages
278
ISBN-13
9781922198303
Product ID
27215079

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