Whole bright year. Debra Oswald. 2018.

In the summer of 1976 it’s picking season on an Australian stone-fruit orchard run by Celia, a hardworking woman in her early forties. Years ago, when her husband was killed unexpectedly, Celia left the city and brought her newborn daughter Zoe to this farm for a more secure life. Now sixteen, Zoe is a passionate, intelligent girl, chafing against her mother’s protectiveness, and yearning for intensity and experience.

Barging into this world as itinerant fruit pickers come a desperate brother and sister from Sydney. Hard-bitten Sheena has dragged her wild eighteen-year-old brother Kieran out west, away from trouble in the city. Kieran and Zoe are drawn to each other the instant they meet, sparking excitement, worry, lust, trouble…….