Bye, Beautiful

Sandy has just moved with her family to a sun-scorched farming town in the wheatbelt of Western Australia, where her father has taken a police posting. Feeling out of place, she is drawn to Billy, a part-Aboriginal apprentice mechanic whom half the town admires. Her crush quickly becomes intense, but she soon discovers that the person standing in her way is her own sister, Marianne, who is bolder and more magnetic than Sandy could ever be. Set against the 1960s, a time when old certainties were beginning to shift, this is a novel about secrets, first love and the heartbreak that comes with loyalty and the hard lines between people who belong and people who do not.