Holy Day
β Scribed by Andrew Bovell
- Publisher
- Currency Press
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 118 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
On the white frontier in mid-nineteenth century Australia, a lone, bloodied woman arrives at a travellerβs rest in the midst of a violent desert storm with a shocking story to tell. Aborigines have allegedly murdered her husband and stolen her infant child. But an Aboriginal woman has a different story to tell. What would cause a missionaryβs wife to lie? What chance does the word of an Aboriginal woman have against hers? A chilling mystery that draws together the lives of four extraordinary women and their men, all struggling to survive in a hostile and misunderstood landscape.
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