"Her fear was now so acute that her thoughts had telescoped and narrowed into this one aim: leaving. She would rather die of starvation in the bush than the alternative. The Cain's farm did indeed abut onto a large tract of bushland, dry mallee scrub, flat and featureless as far as Trudy knew, though she had never been into it... She never knew that it was a place of beauty in the springtime when the wildflowers were out, and orchids, bachelor's buttons, dog's ears, everlasting daisies and many other varieties bloomed extravagantly and with abandon." Fifteen-year-old Trudy is an outsider, shunned by her peers at school, over-worked at home on their isolated farm by her brutal, adoptive father, and harassed by his three uncouth sons. The Cains always expect the worst, but Trudy has a different way of thinking. She never loses hope that someday things will be different. She has her dreams, and she has her faith, fostered by the discovery of an old hymnal in her attic bedroom. The...

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