The Heart of the Continent - Hardcover

Cato, Nancy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312029276 ISBN 13: 9780312029272

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1989

Synopsis

Set in the Australian outback in the early part of the 20th century, this novel tells of the life of a young woman struggling against her privileged background to become a nurse and to cope with the harsh life that the bush and World War I have inflicted upon her.

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From Publishers Weekly:

The compelling terrain of the Australian outback, the setting of this grandly proportioned novel, draws two women--Alix Macfarlane and, later, her daughter Caro--to their fates. First met in the early part of this century, Alix is the daughter of wealthy landowners in Adelaide, chafing at her parents' expectations that she will marry and settle into their well-bred society. Against their wishes, idealistic Alix pursues a nursing degree and then works in an outback clinic where she finds the primitive conditions and the desert land harsh but fulfilling. After marriage to a farmer, Alix moves deeper into "the red heart of Australia, belonging as the Aborigines belonged to a dream-time thousands of years old." Widowed during WW I, Alix begins a career with the airborne medical services; it is Caro, however, a pilot as well as nurse in WW II, who will bring Alix's aspirations to fruition. As in her All the Rivers Run , Cato conveys the haunting allure of a beautiful but unforgiving land, within the context of a captivating story.
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About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0312029276
• ISBN 13: 9780312029272
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 478