Author: Patrick White Year: 1976 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Historical fiction, Classic Culture: Australia
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ISBNs: 9780140044096 0140044094 |
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Set in Australia in the 1840s, A FRINGE OF LEAVES combines dramatic action with a finely distilled moral vision. Returning home to England from Van Diemen's land, the Bristol Maid is shipwrecked on the Queensland coast and Mrs Roxburgh is taken prisoner by a tribe of aborigines, along with the rest of the passengers and crew. In the course of her escape, she is torn by conflicting loyalties - to her dead husband, to her rescuer, to her own and to her adoptive class.
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