The Lambing Flat

Blurb

The Lambing Flat is a novel written by Australian author Nerida Newton and was first published in 2003. It was Newton's first novel. She has since written a second novel, Death of a Whaler.
The novel is set in the mid-nineteenth century Australian gold rushes.
The main characters are
Ella, the daughter of a grazier, who grew up on an isolated, drought-ridden Queensland property.
Lok and his father who come from China in search of gold. They are caught up in the infamous Lambing Flat riots.