The Riders Library Edition Author:Tim Winton After traveling through Europe for two years, Scully and his wife Jennifer wind upin Ireland, and on a mystical whim of Jennifer's, buy an old farmhouse whichstands in the shadow of a castle. While Scully spends weeks alone renovating theold house, Jennifer returns to Australia to liquidate their assets. When Scullyarrives at Shannon Airport to ... more »pick up Jennifer and their seven-year-old daughter,Billie, it is Billie who emerges -- alone. There is no note, no explanation, not somuch as a word from Jennifer, and the shock has left Billie speechless. In thatinstant, Scully's life falls to pieces.The Riders is a superbly written and a darkly haunting story of a lovesick man ina vain search for a vanished woman. It is a powerfully accurate account ofmarriage today, of the demons that trouble relationships, of resurrection found inthe will to keep going, in the refusal to hold on, to stand still. The Riders is also amoving story about the relationship between a loving man and his tough, brightdaughter.« less