Setting (any stage of the novel) - How has the author of your novel used language to describe the setting and create an image in readers’ minds? (Give examples from the novel) Lucy Christopher has used language to describe the setting of the Australian outback and to create an image in readers’ mind. She accomplished this through utilising strong adjectives and literary devices such as similes, metaphors, personification and repetition. The author described the desert in detail to give the readers a vivid and clearer image of the surroundings. This was evident in Gemma’s narration and what she sees, feels and thinks about the place. The setting was slowly revealed to the audience when Gemma starts to accept where she is living and begins