In the midst of the Easter Sunday blizzard enveloping the county of Kent in 1983, a village pub’s conviviality is disturbed by a burly, unkempt Australian wandering in from the cold. Eighteen years earlier the village’s beloved young vicar, Clifford Webster, had left for the last time by the same door when frozen out by his flock. His young lover, Alice Dalby, had inexplicably spread lies which were believed over his truth and, condemned as a sexual predator, he is vilified by a baying tabloid press and imprisoned for four years. Seeking exile in Australia on his release, Clifford roams the country for fourteen years, performing the works of bush poets Banjo Paterson and Henry Lawson, forever obsessed with his betrayal and the need to one day return and uncover the truth. Now back in the village as Samuel Clifford – itinerant Australian bush poet with a taste for whisky, and unrecognisable from his former self – he sets about winning back the hearts and minds of the community; most importantly the widowed Lady of the Manor, Alice. Befriending Marlon Doyle, a local oddball with his own grudges and suspicions, Clifford unravels a sinister web behind his downfall, whilst growing ever closer to Alice’s musically-gifted niece, Genevieve. Battling with his faith in God and rekindled passion for the only woman he has ever loved, he faces the ultimate dilemma of whether he can be as ruthless in revenge as Alice was ruthless in betrayal.
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