‘One Friday night, early in December 1929, Emma Keppler had a big argument with her father……She was almost thirteen, and in her last few weeks at Gonunda Primary School. She had never been afraid to say what she thought, and now that she was starting to grow up she was more than ever inclined to speak out for herself - even in front of Dad. It wasn’t a very nice thing to do. All the others knew that girls ought to hold their tongues and behave themselves…….
So begins the story of two months in the life of Emma Keppler - two exciting and eventful months which were to change the whole direction of her life.
In this book, set in a German-speaking community just north of the Barossa Valley in South Australia at the time of the Great Depression, master storyteller Colin Thiele recreates the world of his much-loved The Sun on the Stubble, but this time the story is told from a girl’s point of view. In what was a man’s world, Emma Keppler was determined to make her own life, in her own way…….
