MacAdam/Cage
155 Sansome Street, Suite 550
San Francisco, CA 94104
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Copyright © 2005 by David Francis
All rights reserved.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Francis, David, 1957—
The great inland sea
/ by David Francis.
p. cm.
ISBN 1-59692-116-1 (alk. paper)
1. Australians—United States—Fiction. 2. Maternal deprivation—Fiction. 3. Mothers—Death—Fiction. 4. Horse grooms—Fiction. 5. Horseracing—Fiction. 6. Race horses—Fiction. 7. Australia—Fiction. I. Title.
PR9619.4.F73G74 2005
823’.92—dc22
2004030829
Book and jacket design by Dorothy Carico Smith.
Publisher’s Note: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.