This novel about the Laffey family, set in turn-of-the-century Australia, is written by the author of "Well-Dressed Explorer", one of three of her novels which have won the Miles Franklin Award and "A Kindness Cup" which won the Australian Book of the Year Award in 1975.
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"With her characteristic originality, freshness of expression and skill with evocative imagery, Astley chronicles the lives of four generations of an Australian family and of an aborigine tribe," wrote PW of this work that "speaks eloquently and with candor."
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- PublisherPenguin Books
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0140114033
- ISBN 13 9780140114034
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages208
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