Half Wild
β Scribed by Smith, Pip
- Book ID
- 109701329
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 3 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781760294649
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β¦ Synopsis
Pip Smith has always been an agent of change. With her powerful debut novel, Half Wild, she will surely change the way we read, write, think and talk about Australian fiction.'
Sam Twyford-Moore, host of The Rereaders podcast and former director of the Emerging Writers' Festival
Sydney, 1938. After being hit by a car on Oxford Street, sixty-three-year-old Jean Ford lies in a coma in Sydney Hospital. Doctors talk across her body, nurses jab her in the arm with morphine, detectives arrive to take her fingerprints. She has Β£100 in her pocket, but no identification. Memories come back to her-a murder trial, a life in prison-but with each prick of the needle her memories begin to shift.
Wellington, 1885. Tally Ho doesn't need to go to school because she is going to be a fisherman or a cart driver or a butcher boy like Harry Crawford. Wellington is her town and she makes up the rules. Papa takes her fishing, Nonno teaches her how to jump fences on his horse Geronimo-life...
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