Crossing the Creek

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About the Book

Navigating two worlds is never easy. On colonial Australia’s pastoral frontier, three lives intertwine in a story of dispossession, identity and belonging.

Twyla, an Aboriginal child separated from family and suffering memory loss, is forced to work as a domestic servant on a property in north-west NSW, where she takes refuge at the creek and finds a friend and protector in Gamilaraay station hand, Garruu.

Sheep overseer Tom, an emancipist and former Kidderminster carpet weaver, alienated geographically and by the settler violence around him, hungers for family, friends and justice.

When Garruu is wrongfully arrested, Twyla and Tom’s courage is tested as they stand up for justice in the face of intense racism.

Weaving together a vivid sense of Country, and laced with Gamilaraay language, Crossing the Creek is a love story between a man, a woman and a place, and also important truth-telling through fiction.

About the Author

Photograph © Marie Court

Judi Morison is a storyteller of Gamilaroi and Celtic heritage, currently living on Gumbaynggirr Country. She has completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Technology Sydney, and her short fiction and poetry have been published in a number of anthologies and journals. A member of the Ngana Barangarai (Black Wallaby) Indigenous Literary Project, she has had a long involvement with Dreaming Inside: Voices from Junee Correctional Centre and the Emerging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Writers Mentoring Program for South Coast Writers Centre. Secrets, her first novel, in manuscript won the 2022 Boundless Indigenous Mentorship, provided by Writing NSW and Text Publishing. A supporter of First Nations languages revival, Judi continues to learn and practise her Gamilaraay language.

Product Details

  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia (February 2, 2027)
  • Length: 320 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781761636110

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