Publisher's Synopsis
When Sister Kathleen Murphy decided to visit the old Aboriginal woman, Anna Cook in the Derby District Hospital to ask for her help with a project for her students about life on the vast cattle station Cockatoo Creek she had no real idea what to expect. But, what the Sister learns surprises and shocks her. What she hears is a tale of murder and rape by white men who lived with apparent impunity of the laws of that time. A heart-wrenching story of true love despite the demeaning racial hatred of those days, told in a land of ruthless white men, skilled black trackers and a mysterious Kurdaitcha man that some say can travel the land as a great eagle, as a Spirit Bird.
A story as colourful as any from the pages of the American WestThis is the final chapter in the story of the lives of two women. Isabella Montinari, the beautiful daughter of the wealthy Melbourne businessman, Italian born, Michael Montinari, owner of the vast Kimberley cattle station, Cockatoo Creek, and Jiiarnna the beautiful Aboriginal woman who was born in the wilds of the Kimberley bush. Two women vastly different in so many ways and yet who form a friendship forged in a furnace of tragedy. A tale of racial hatred, murder and enduring love. Set in the wild days of the 1930s on the vast cattle station Cockatoo Creek deep in the heart of the Kimberley.
