Cover art for The Waterboys
Published
Fremantle Press, August 2011
ISBN
9781921696947
Format
Softcover, 364 pages
Dimensions
20.5cm × 13.9cm × 2.3cm

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Conway inhabits an apocalyptic future in a continent caught up in a violent struggle for control of water. He is a whitefulla whose heart and spiritual connections are black. On the run from the Water Board flunkies who hate him but need his water divining skills to survive, Conway dreams his way back to the arrival of Europeans in Western Australia when Captain Charles Fremantle chooses to throw off the mantle of Empire and join the Nyoongar people.

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