"Out there", a romance of Australia

by Dick Donovan (Pseudonym), J.E. Preston Muddock

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298 pages, Paperback

First published August 8, 2015

About the author

See also J.E. Preston Muddock

Reviews

[Perry Whitford · Rating 3 out of 5]

'The heart of a man is full of hypocrisy; the heart of Nature is utterly without guile.'

Undoubtedly true. However, if the Nature you're talking about is the Australian outback, its guilelessness can be just as cruel as the hypocrisy of a man. Harold Preston discovers this when he goes prospecting for gold in the uncharted bush with a rival he considered a friend.

Preston's supposed friend is Oliver Gordan. They come from different sides of feuding families in rural Australia. Harold loves Mary Gordan, Oliver's cousin. The two-faced Oliver has always secretly loved her too, and when Harold gets a tip from an old prospector about a goldmine in aboriginal territory the scene is (slowly) set for a fairly decent tale of jealousy, betrayal and vengeance.

Though set in Australia the story is not unlike a Western of the more meditative variety. There was enough foreshadowing of impending tragedy in part one, but I was still surprised by just how dark a turn the story took in part two.

The Australian landscape was lovingly evoked to good effect, if perhaps with too much repetition.