AustLit

'It's a difficult thing to crave, land, especially when your body is small. And a dangerous thing, too, when you have no business being there, when it's not even where you're from.

'Alice, an unrooted child of diplomats in South America; Violet, a newlywed settling in the Australian scrub; George, a gardener fleeing the violent Clearances.

'Three generations wander a world scarred by colonialism and disturbing scientific revelations, from the unearthing of the first dinosaur bones to the discovery that the continents drift, in a hypnotic novel about our passionate, uneasy affair with nature, in which we restlessly search for home.' (Author's abstract)