EAN: 9781529345100

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By the Booker-winning author of Schindler's Ark a vibrant novel about Charles Dickens' son and his little-known adventures in the Australian Outback. In 1868 Charles Dickens dispatches his youngest child sixteen-year-old Edward to Australia. Posted to a remote sheep station in New South Wales Edward discovers that his father's fame has reached even there as has the gossip about his father's scandalous liaison with an actress. Amid colonists ex-convicts local tribespeople and a handful of eligible young women Edward strives to be his own man - and keep secret the fact that he's read none of his father's novels. Conjuring up a life of sheep-droving horse-racing and cricket tournaments in a community riven with tensions and prejudice the story of Edward's adventures also affords an intimate portrait of Dickens' himself. This vivacious novel is classic Keneally: historical figures and events re-imagined with verve humour and compassion.

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