On the various other occasions that Sadie is whisked back to the year 1933, she witnesses the escalating conflict between Jimmy Raven and Gerald Mortlock. Jimmy Raven, an Aboriginal man who works for Gerald Mortlock and who served with him and Clarry Hazzard in World War I, wants to stop Mortlock from building the dam, as it will flood an ancient sacred site-the site of the stone circles-which is extremely important to his own Aboriginal people. At the time of Sadie’s time travel to the past, Jimmy Raven and Gerald Mortlock are in a serious conflict over the dam that Gerald Mortlock intends to build on the family’s large property of Invergarry in Boort. There, she meets her own great-grandfather Clarry Hazzard and her great-grandmother Jean Hazzard, as well Jimmy Raven and Gerald Mortlock-two friends of her great-grandfather’s. Things get even stranger when Sadie, visiting the stone circle again one day, has a fainting fit and finds herself in the year 1933, living in her great-aunt’s body (who was named Sarah Louise but was also nicknamed Sadie). It is there that the black crows, which are ubiquitous in the town’s landscape, begin speaking to her, telling her that the stone circle is “Crow’s place,” a special place full of stories. At the lakebed, she finds a mysterious circle of stones. But things get interesting when, one day, she stumbles upon a dry lakebed located on the property of a wealthy local family named the Mortlocks. Sadie isn’t very happy to be uprooted to such a small, remote town. Produced by Sarah Bacaller for Voices of Today.13-year-old Sadie Hazzard must build a whole new life for herself when her mother, Ellie, moves her to Boort-a small town in rural Australia where the Hazzards have roots. Production copyright 2021 Elizabeth Chambers. She lives on Wurundjeri country in a northern suburb of Melbourne. Kate has written eleven novels for young people, including the internationally-published Chanters of Tremaris fantasy series. Kate had several stories published in literary magazines before realising she was actually a children's and YA author. She studied Arts/Law at university before working in the music industry while she began her life as a writer. Kate Constable was born in Melbourne but grew up in Papua New Guinea, within reach of a library where she devoured stories. Crow Country won the CBCA Book of the Year, Younger Readers, in 2012 and is studied in many Australian high schools.
Sadie, Walter and Lachie must find a way to atone for past wrongs, or be doomed to repeat them. Then Sadie is thrown back in time to witness a dreadful crime in which her family is involved. But before long she has discovered a powerful place and crows that speak to her, and she is drawn to two boys, Lachie and Walter. Sadie is upset when her mum uproots them from the city to move to the remote small town of Boort.
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