Sixteen-year-old June Westley is an ideal daughter - kind, considerate, loving, and far more at ease in the Bush pioneered by her forefathers than her own father, Arthur, who spends his days waxing the Buick in the Australian sun.
Australia, 1950. The rarely-spotted duck-billed platypus is rumoured to bring you luck. Sixteen-year-old June Westley spots a platypus and, sure enough, luck seems to shine down on her when she falls in love with a young musician. This title presents an idyllic and sensuous tale of the confusion, horror and tentative delights of first love.
