SPINDRIFT

An epic emotional journey set between the rugged Isle of Skye and the promising new frontier of distant Tasmania.

In 1855 the young Christy Macleod was brutally evicted with her family from their croft on the Isle of Skye during the violent Clearances. Christy is barely sixteen when she's forced to board a ship with the remnants of her family for an uncertain future on the island of Tasmania. Now it is 1905 and she is making her first pilgrimage home to Skye after almost fifty years. The events of what had happened to her and her family during those dark days of the Clearances haunt her still, but in order to put those ghosts to rest, she must reveal her story to her daughter and granddaughter in the hope that the power of love and family which has sustained her through the worst of times will now heal the rifts and bring new understanding. Yet she's aware that her task will not be easy, for her daughter will not forgive her youthful mistakes, and her granddaughter is struggling to remain loyal to both of them.

TAMARA MCKINLEY is the world-wide best-selling author of eleven novels set in Australia. Her books are translated and published in twenty languages, achieving over 2,000,000 sales and excellent reviews. Tamara was born in Tasmania, but now lives in England on the South Coast with her husband and two cats. She returns to Australia regularly for research and to visit her family.