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A remarkable novel set in the Australian outback where Billy Saint lives with his vague and dreamy parents. Billy listens to the many voices around him, the wind, garrulous ghosts and some colourful local characters. Soon another voice is added to the collection, Maisie, a spirit child who haunts Billy relentlessly. Ten years later, Billy is found in an Alice Springs hospital attempting to come to terms with his voices. 'She has taken on large themes - the demise of a culture; the neglected presences, desperate to be heard, that can twist human destiny - and absorbed a blasted, exotic land to the bone.' The Guardian