Author Series: Anita Heiss

Miinaa was a young girl when the white ghosts first arrived. She remembers the day they raised a piece of cloth and renamed her homeland ‘Bathurst’. Now she lives at Cloverdale and works for a white family who have settled there.

When Irish convict Daniel O’Dwyer arrives, Miinaa’s life is transformed again. The pair are magnetically drawn to each other and begin meeting at the bila in secret. Dan understands how it feels to be displaced, but they still have a lot to learn about each other. Can their love survive their differences and the turmoil that threatens to destroy everything around them?

Book now to meet Anita Heiss as she talks about what inspired the book, and how she approaches researching and writing her novels. She'll be in conversation with Torres Straight Islander media professional and journalist Rhianna Patrick.

‘With irresistible imagination and verve, as well as a deep desire for truth telling, Anita Heiss’s novels are re-peopling our past.’ – Simon & Schuster

Dr Anita Heiss is an internationally published, award-winning author of 23 books. She’s a proud member of the Wiradyuri Nation of central New South Wales, an Ambassador for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation and the GO Foundation, and Professor of Communications at the University of Queensland.