About Secrets from The Dust:
Set in Australia between the 1960s and early 1970s, this historical saga follows Margaret, an Aboriginal girl who is snatched from her family and brought up by white foster parents in the outback, under the government sponsored assimilation policies. She stubbornly tries to maintain her culture until she can escape or her real parents find her, but then she discovers that she is growing to like many of the customs and material possessions of her captors, producing a crisis of cultural identity. By the time she grows into a beautiful young woman and moves to Sydney to study nursing, she has already suffered the disappointments of unrequited love and the forbidden desire for her foster father. She tries to hide behind the identity of a Southern European, but the highly charged political environment of Sydney and her love for a political activist forces her to confront her true identity.
This novel has a strong potential with lovers of historical/general fiction or “social” novels, those with an interest in other cultures and Australia. It will spark many interesting discussions for reading groups and students of English literature.
The book is available from the links below.
Thanks for taking the time to read this, and I hope you will give my novel a try and even leave a review.
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George Hamilton
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