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The book tells the homecoming story of three half-Aboriginal girls named Molly, Daisy and Gracie.
Aborigines are indigenous people living isolated from modern life in the northwest of Australia.
After the British captured the eastern coast of Australia, these unexplored untouched areas were taken over by rich and powerful (!) people who were responsible for maintaining their traditions.
These nobles, who thought that life consisted of having picnics, hunting foxes and organizing balls, settled there and transmitted many diseases, along with the concept of property, to the local people who had no immunity.
They surrounded the lands they occupied with fences and appointed guards to protect their property. The indigenous people, who could not protect themselves with spears against the colonialists who had many advanced weapons such as guns in their hands, were forced to do inhumane situations such as animal husbandry, servanthood, and women as servants and slavery. They were completely alienated from their own culture, language and religion and assimilated. Many women and girls were raped, many of the population lost their lives due to these reasons and many due to transmitted diseases. All these painful realities are told through the three girls I mentioned. The fathers of these three girls are colonialist white mothers, Aboriginal women, and the government raises the girls to fully assimilate them and then send them to farms as servants. These three sisters embark on a long and difficult journey because they do not want to be separated from their family or freedom.