Lilli's family is moving from the outback to the city, and Lilli is sure she'll be horribly lonely. She'll miss the mangoes, she'll miss her cousins, and most of all, she'll miss her Grandma. But when Grandma sends a special friend south with her granddaughter-a secret Shadow to look after her-Lilli discovers life in the city isn't so bad after all.

Pat Dudgeon is the chair of the Australian Indigenous Psychologist's Association as well as an associate professor and research fellow at the University of Western Australia's School of Indigenous Studies. She is the former head of the Center for Aboriginal Studies at Curtin University. She and Laura Dudgeon are descendants of the Beniol Bardi people from north of Broome.