Half wild / Pip Smith
- Bib ID:
- 7382380
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Smith, Pip, 1983-, author
- Description:
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- Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin 2017
- ©2017
- 390 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
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- 1760294640
- 9781760294649 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Sydney, 1938. After being hit by a car on Oxford Street, sixty-three-year-old Jean Ford lies in a coma in Sydney Hospital. Memories come back to her - a murder trial, a life in prison - but with each prick of the needle her memories begin to shift. Wellington, 1885. Tally Ho doesn't need to go to school because she is going to be a fisherman or a cart driver or a butcher boy like Harry Crawford. Wellington is her town and she makes up the rules. Papa takes her fishing, Nonno teaches her how to jump fences on his horse Geronimo - life gallops on the way it should, until a brother, baby William, is born. Taking the advice of her hero, Harry Crawford, she runs away. Sydney, 1917. The burned body of a woman is discovered on the banks of the Lane Cove River. Was she a mad woman? A drunk who'd accidentally set herself on fire?
- Notes:
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- "Based on the true lives of Eugenia Falleni" -- Back cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-390)
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2017
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