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Barra Creek

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There is a cattle station - Barra Creek - in the wild Gulf country of North West Queensland of Australia on a tributary of the crocodile-infested Norman River.

Sally Mitchel impulsively takes a job as a governess at Barra Creek. Hundreds of miles from any town and no contact except the mail plane, The Flying Doctor and the School of the Air. The children have to use every day as there is no school except by radio and home tutoring by the governess.

Her boss is overpowering John Monroe and his strict and proper wife Lorna. John Monroe late at night often wanders down to the aboriginal stockmans camp to join them for drinks around a camp fire. The white women are told to never come near at night time, as its not safe.

Sally sleeps on the verandah in the unbearable heat with the three young boys. The boys put a snake in her shoes, play awful pranks on her to scare her away in the beginning.It used to work scaring off all the other governesses. But Sally is determined to stay she has nowhere else to go.

The challenges of her three charges, wild stockmen, the heat and the wet, a great passion, cattle musters all fade compared to a great loss and a gruesome death.

An Outback Family Saga you won't be able to stop thinking about when you are finished. This story would make a wonderful movie.

Barra Creek was a fantastic read spanning the life of Sally Mitchell. I am sure I will read it over and over