While the story of small-town loves, rivalries and misdemeanours is well done, it is, as always, Hickey's observations of rural life that are completely engaging.
Margaret Hickey is an award-winning author and playwright from North East Victoria. She has a PhD in Creative Writing and is deeply interested in rural lives and communities. She is also the author of Cutters End and Stone Town. Cutters End won the BAD Sydney Danger Prize and was shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut.
