Tears over the Kimberleys by Lance C. Wilson

If you are looking for a rollicking, lusty tale of outback life, then this is the book for you. While working as a shearer, AJ meets Sky, a beautiful part-aboriginal girl and it is through a misunderstanding that they lose touch. In time he meets and marries the wealthy, spoiled and spirited Prudence.

 

On his way to fight in Vietnam, the planeload of soldiers stops over in Darwin where he reconnects with Sky and learns he is a father. Amazingly, Sky and Prudence become firm friends and together operate the 'Big Sky' cattle station in the Kimberleys while waiting for AJ's return.

 

Lance Wilson's tale is certainly raunchy at some stages but is predominantly the story of a family enduring and thriving in the Australian outback and rural Tasmania. AJ, Sky and Prudence are down-to-earth characters and are supported in their journeys through life by a large cast of colourful hangers on.

 

Citation: Wilson, Lance C. Tears over the Kimberleys [n.p.] : Kimberley Cottage Press, c2007.

 

ISBN: 978 0 9775505 2 4  228p.

 

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A child's book of true crime by Chloe Hooper

In this psychological mystery, Kate Byrne is having an affair with the father of Lucien, one of her young students. A peaceful rural setting belies the foreboding just below the surface of the local community.

 A decade earlier,  a young adulteress had been murdered, and this episode is related in "Murder at Black Swan Point", a book by the wife of Kate's lover.

 

As Kate becomes more obsessed by the crime which mirrors her own situation, even her lover's forays into the erotic do nothing to bring home the reality of her situation, and the effect it is having on her place in the small town society.

  

Citation: Hooper, Chloe A child's book of true crime  Milsons Point, NSW : Random House Australia, 2002.

 

ISBN: 1 74051 208 1  238p.

 

 

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