Publisher's Synopsis
Emily lives with her family - Mama, Papa, little brother James and Baby Ann - on a small farm in rural New South Wales. In 1886, after a terrible flood, and with Papa working as a teamster far from home, the children and Mama are stranded, with scarcely anything left to eat. After the floodwaters have subsided, they pack up a swag and the remaining scraps of food and set off on an epic walk to the nearest town - through swarms of sandflies, past animals drowned in the flood, on and on through the sticky, black mud...
