Pool of Dreams Author:Lucy Walker LUCY WALKER--with a difference. Famed for her romantic novels of life in Australia today, Lucy Walker has become a favorite writer around the world. Now Beagle presents a different side of Lucy Walker, with this powerful historical novel--a harsher, more forthright story than her readers have come to expect, but as vivid in its depiction of life... more » in a fascinating country. POOL OF DREAMS. Political prisoners fleeing in a hostile land--a desperate chase by mounted police--a brutal ex-convict living in secrecy and squalor--these were the harsh, dangerous realities of Mary's life. But the mysterious girl who seemed attuned to the wild country was untouched by them--yet a key actor in the savage drama of a nation coming into being.« less