Original 

The original time setting in the novel was after WWI when one of the Aboriginal soldiers Xavier  came back home to meet his aunt Niska and they shared their experiences with each other. The author constantly used flashbacks to describe the events happened in their lives I think the reason for including so many flashbacks was so it made the book even more exciting. I really liked how the flashback were used in this book because they used in certain places and they were used really effectively.