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A story of homecoming, this absorbing novel opens with city bred young lawyer Candice as she sets out on her first visit to her ancestral homeland. She arrives at "the place where the rivers meet", the long abandoned camp of the Eualeyai where in 1919 her great grandmother Garibooli was abducted. The twentieth century falls away and Garibooli, renamed Elizabeth by the authorities, takes up the story of Candice's Aboriginal family. In her short lifetime as a teenaged servant then as wife and mother, Garibooli never finds her way back "to the place where the rivers meet". Her children follow with their stories, each revealing the impact of an orphanage home on broken families and the consequences of having dark skin in 1950s Australia. It is in connecting the histories of her scattered ancestors that Candice will find her way home.

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