In the wheatbelt of Western Australia, beneath a vast blue and gold landscape, lie disused mine shafts. Above the ground rise the silos. University student Fin Torrent goes to work in this remote country during his summer holidays, drawn into the land's myths and mysteries. Part whodunit, part psychological thriller, part magical fantasy, the novel charts the rises and falls of the Cleaver farming family against a landscape of extraordinary power and menace.

A bold, genre-defying novel where violence rubs shoulders with a strange lyricism.