The Past Is a Secret Country

by Maree Giles

Freya Kirby's battle to regain custody of her children takes her to her past in Australia, to a time of hidden truths--towards a spiritual heritage...Freya is changing. She is developing her innate gift for healing. She's going to need this gift, for one day the wounds of the past arrive in the shape of Connie. High-flying Connie is an indigenous Australian. As unlike the fair-skinned Freya as it is possible to be...Passionate about her children, unsure of her future and confused about her earlier life, Freya must embark on a spiritual and emotional quest. A journey without expectations, to an unnamed destination.

416 pages, Paperback

First published June 2, 2005

Reviews

[Vanda Bromwich · Rating 3 out of 5]

Due to a throwback gene, 3 girls, 2 black and one white are born to a white couple on a remote farm in Australia. Their father has them all adopted and the story follows their lives and the effect their adoption has on them.
I remember a white South African couple having a black child and the trouble this caused during apartheid.This story is a parallel of that but instead the author has chosen to make the girls Aborigine.