Clancy of the Overflow

✍ Scribed by Jackie French

• Publisher: HarperCollins;Angus & Robertson
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 248 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1460709160

✦ Synopsis

From Australia's best-loved storyteller comes the final book in the bestselling Matilda Saga

This is the story of our nation, told in a single sweeping love story

Jed Kelly has finally persuaded her great aunt Nancy to tell the story of her grandparents. The tale that unfolds is one of Australia's greatest romances, that of Clancy of the Overflow, who gave up everything for Rose, the woman he adored, and yet still gained all he'd left and more.

But Nancy's story is not the history that Jed expects. More tales lurk behind the folklore that surrounds Clancy - the stories of the women hidden in Australia's long history, who forged a nation and whose voices need to be heard.

It is also a story of many kinds of love. Clancy's growing passion for the bush, immortalised in Paterson's poem, which speaks to him in the ripple of the river and the song of the stars, and Nancy's need to pass on her deep understanding of her country.

But perhaps...