AustLit

'Most Australians who have any familiarity with the Coorong – that long stretch of complicated South Australian coastline that curves down to the south-east from below the Murray Mouth, a landscape both subtle and dramatic – will know it from the movie Storm Boy. There is indeed a small town there called Salt Creek, but Salt Creek Station, the property on which almost all of this novel is set, is imaginary. As Treloar says, "this novel is a blend of fact and fiction". ...'