An Alice Girl by Heaslip, Tanya

Allen & Unwin. New. New and unused. paperback New Ships fast! 2020

Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2020. Softcover. Very Good Condition. As far as our eyes could see were miles upon miles of emptiness, huge blue skies and bare earth. We heard pink cockatoos squawk in the gum trees, and crickets click and clack at night, but it was also a place of silence. There was not a person or town to be seen. We could shout into the hills and hear our voices echo back to us. We could lie on our backs at night and imagine the sky of stars swallowing us whole. We could die out here under the savage summer sun and our bones would turn white and dissolve in the dry winds. Nobody would ever know we'd been there. We thought that was kind of exciting. For fans of Toni Tapp Coutts' A Sunburnt Childhood and Mary Groves' An Outback Life comes Tanya Heaslip's extraordinary story of growing up with her sister and brothers in the late 1960s and early 70s on their vast outback cattle property just north of Alice Springs. Whether working the mobs of cattle with the stockmen,… Read More

Allen & Unwin, 2020. Paperback. New. 344 pages. 9.21x6.02x1.18 inches.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.