Blackwattle Road
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Liona is looking back over her life. She's been a witness to Australia's twentieth century, more than a witness - a participant - and not always a willing one. There have been wars, hardship, depression, even moments of salvation and triumph.
Forged by her choices, Liona tells the story of her richly complex relationship with a mining community called Steeltown. Of battlers in boarding houses, miners' cottages and, beyond them, people trying to make a new life out on the western plains.
'Blackwattle Road' is an unforgettable first novel by a writer who understands, as Ruth Park does, the bittersweet nature of family and love - the way a new country can be built on old longings.
Author: Ann Charlton
Format: Paperback, 432 pages, 163mm x 234mm, 560 g
Published: 1999, Hachette Australia, Australia
Genre: General & Literary Fiction
Liona is looking back over her life. She's been a witness to Australia's twentieth century, more than a witness - a participant - and not always a willing one. There have been wars, hardship, depression, even moments of salvation and triumph.
Forged by her choices, Liona tells the story of her richly complex relationship with a mining community called Steeltown. Of battlers in boarding houses, miners' cottages and, beyond them, people trying to make a new life out on the western plains.
'Blackwattle Road' is an unforgettable first novel by a writer who understands, as Ruth Park does, the bittersweet nature of family and love - the way a new country can be built on old longings.