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. 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.
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