The Voices

The new novel from the sparklingly original author of Sunset over Chocolate Mountains. In the remote, blood-red landscape of the Australian bush, thirteen-year-old Billy Saint hears the haunting song of an Aboriginal girl. The song tugs at something deep, something larger and more powerful than himself. She has sung Billy up - and he is destined to love her for ever... In an Alice Springs hospital ten years later, recovering from gruesome wounds of mysterious origin, Billy attempts to explain the voices in his head. But only Cecily, the Aboriginal nurse, will listen. What unravels is a mesmerising account of the relationship between a man, the land he loves, and the spirits of the country, struggling to be heard before it is too late. THE VOICES is an eloquent lament for a disappearing culture, told with extraordinary delicacy and power. It is a novel of seductive beauty set in a timeless landscape, and will not easily be forgotten.