Tirra Lirra by the river

Nora Porteous has spent most of her life waiting to escape. Fleeing from her small-town family and then from her stifling marriage to a mean-spirited husband, Nora arrives finally in London where she creates a new life for herself as a successful dressmaker. Now in her seventies, Nora returns to northern Australia to settle into her childhood home. But Nora has been away a long time, and the people and events of her past are not at all like she remembered them.