A Good Reputation
Condition: Very Good
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In a very good condition with some creasing to the spine. See photos for more details.
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About this book:
FROM THE VIVID BLUE SKIES OF THE AUSTRALIAN OUTBACK COMES THE STORY OF AN EXTRAORDINARY ALLIANCE, FORGED FROM UNLIKELY BEGINNINGS…
In the country town of Kurra Kurra in the 1930s, every voung woman is destined for the steady, hardworking life of wife and mother. The daughter of Kurra’s stationmaster and his upright wife, so, too, is Billy Batchelor – but the strongwilled Billy has other plans for her future… Shaped by her Aboriginal nurse, Ruth’s, stories of the Dreamtime, she is ready to challenge the status quo of this tough, frontier town.
And Ruth, a woman whose children and natural home have been taken away from her, is determined that Billy should take the chances she knows she will never have.
As a long war follows the bitter Depression, Billy discovers that she has chosen the hardest route in life. But she will find support from an unexpected source, a man carved out of the harsh landscape of the outback, but with a comprehension and spirit far beyond his experience. And through it all there is Ruth..
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