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"The way I saw it was that Daniel and Esme never thought too much about how it was going to be for them coming in to police a town like Mount Hay from the outside the way they did." p13
Told in the first person, Coal Creek begins in the late 1940's and is the story of twenty year old 'Bobby Blue', born and raised in the back country of the Queensland Highlands. In need of a way to make a living after the death of his father, Bobby gets a job with the the new police sergeant of Mount Hay, Daniel C ...more
This was a rich, and very Australian novel about a young Australian man working in the harsh, rural Queensland country side. Bobby Blewit, or Bobby Blue as he was known is working as a Policemans Assistant in a small Queensland town of Mount Hay, for the town’s new Policeman Daniel Collins, recently moved from the coast with his family, wife, Esme and daughters Irie and Miriam. Esme and Irie are teaching Bobby to read and write, and he is very grateful, and he has feelings for Irie, but she is s
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Coal Creek by Alex Miller is probably one of the best books I've read in a while. It's also one of the most unusual. It's a story set in western Queensland, in the hard country where wild cattle, cock-horned scrubbers and old piker bullocks still roam the ranges. The people still work their properties in the old ways, even though this is the era of telephones and trucks, but before the advent of helicopter mustering. Bobby Blue, a young stockman, takes on a job assisting the new policeman in
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