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A novel of dangerous obsessions and strange love from a Miles Franklin Award shortlisted author. On the far northwest coast of Tasmania at Cape Grimm lies the isolated and idiosyncratic community of Skye, which practises a religion that reveres the imagination. One clear evening in 1992 all the inhabitants enter the church hall, where they are locked in and burned alive. They have been persuaded to do this by a young man called Caleb Mean - also known as El Nino, the Christ Child. The only survivors of the fire are Caleb, his lover Virginia, and their baby daughter Golden. How could such a thing happen? And why? Do the answers lie in the tragedy of the Aborigines herded over the cliffs at Cape Grimm? Are they in the history of Skye itself? Or do they lie within the mysteries of the human soul? "An engaging novel of mystery and faith ...thoroughly enthralling." - Australian Bookseller Publisher. "Bird's prose style delights in coincidences and conundrums, in the playful and dangerous blend of fact and fiction." - Canberra Times