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5★
Unparalleled story-telling. I can’t limit a nutshell to “life on a rural sheep station” or “dingoes in the dry country” or “loss and love in the bush”. It has all those things, but so much more.
There are concurrent stories running along and across each other. One story is about the people. Two shearers--old hand and a younger offsider--go to shear on Drysdale Downs, an old family property, for a recently widowed, grief-stricken owner, his daughter, Clara, and a Malay cook, Jimmy.
The other sto ...more
Unparalleled story-telling. I can’t limit a nutshell to “life on a rural sheep station” or “dingoes in the dry country” or “loss and love in the bush”. It has all those things, but so much more.
There are concurrent stories running along and across each other. One story is about the people. Two shearers--old hand and a younger offsider--go to shear on Drysdale Downs, an old family property, for a recently widowed, grief-stricken owner, his daughter, Clara, and a Malay cook, Jimmy.
The other sto ...more
Jun 08, 2015
Donna
marked it as to-read
