It is 1839. A young Aboriginal girl, Mathinna, is running through the long wet grass of an island at the end of the world to get help for her dying father, an Aboriginal chieftain. Twenty years later, on an island at the centre of the world, the most famous novelist of the day, Charles Dickens, realises he is about to abandon his wife, risk his name and forever after be altered because of his inability any longer to control his intense passion. --Publisher

This is one of the 8 winning titles, voted by Australians for the National Year of Reading 2012 collection http://www.love2read.org.au/our-story.cfm