The Girls of the White Platypus Totem

The Girls of the White Platypus Totem tells the story of Tildey Starling and Carmella Blacksnake as they are swept up into a spiritual adventure in the super-remote Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia.

The two climate activist friends are called upon by the Pope to investigate strange pictographs of a white platypus that begin popping up in Western Australia and the Northern Territories. These pictographs send Aborigines into an uproar and herald a new cycle for planet Earth. The novel was inspired by Peter Weir's 1977 movie, The Last Wave.

Following the first book in the series, Glass Towers and Goats, Tildey and Carmella find themselves involved in an investigation of mysterious unrest among traditional Aborigines in the remote Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia. Pursued by predatory academics in league with the army, the two flee across the ocean with the Pope's pilot in the papal jet. They then travel by Land Rover and horseback to St. Mechtilde's of the Desert, a remote convent, to launch an investigation of strange spiritual happenings originating from the mysterious, cave-infested limestone plateau. Meanwhile, their pursuers have not given up.