Familiar Yet Far: The Story of Oisin Kelly

By Iona Carroll

With the Vietnam War as background, life in 1970's Australia was a time of social and political change. Bitter, disillusioned and still haunted by past events, young Irishman Oisin Kelly arrives in the outback Australian town of Kilgoolga. As he struggles to come to terms with this new and sometimes frightening environment, he falls under the spell of the enigmatic Eleanor Bradshaw. He is totally unprepared for what happens next.
Deception, intrigue and misplaced loyalty are at the heart of this work of fiction as Oisin discovers that things are not always what they seem.