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Gamma's Girl
Australia, 1977. Eighteen-year-old Nairee Peech was abandoned as a baby. She's always wondered where she really came from. Is there a man who can finally give her a sense of belonging?
From the bestselling author of Australian outback romance. Over 12 million books sold worldwide.
Nairee was raised in the outback by the kind lady she calls "Gamma" - "Grandma". But despite their bond, Nairee has no idea who her real family are. Will she unlock the mystery surrounding her birth?
Ranger Mark Allen is responsible for protecting the animals in the bush. He's always felt protective towards Nairee too. Does he have more to offer her than friendship?
Handsome Dean Lacey is a wealthy station-owner and eligible bachelor. He seems to shadow Nairee wherever she goes. What lies behind his interest in her?
Mark or Dean - which has Nairee secretly dreamed of loving for keeps? And can either of them solve the secrets of her past?
Lucy Walker's gentle, clean romances give readers a fascinating insight into the landscape, people and customs of rural Australian in the mid-twentieth century.
From the bestselling author of Australian outback romance. Over 12 million books sold worldwide.
Nairee was raised in the outback by the kind lady she calls "Gamma" - "Grandma". But despite their bond, Nairee has no idea who her real family are. Will she unlock the mystery surrounding her birth?
Ranger Mark Allen is responsible for protecting the animals in the bush. He's always felt protective towards Nairee too. Does he have more to offer her than friendship?
Handsome Dean Lacey is a wealthy station-owner and eligible bachelor. He seems to shadow Nairee wherever she goes. What lies behind his interest in her?
Mark or Dean - which has Nairee secretly dreamed of loving for keeps? And can either of them solve the secrets of her past?
Lucy Walker's gentle, clean romances give readers a fascinating insight into the landscape, people and customs of rural Australian in the mid-twentieth century.
259 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 31, 1977
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Lucy Walker
101 books27 followersLibrarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.
Lucy Walker (1907–1987) was the most famous of a few pseudonyms used by Dorothy Lucie Sanders (née McClemans). She was born in Boulder, Western Australia, on 4 May 1907. Her father was of Irish stock, a minister of the Church of England. Her mother was from New Zealand. Dorothy began writing at an early age, despite her father’s scepticism about her ability.
A qualified teacher from Perth College (1928), she taught in state schools in Western Australia until 1936. She continued teaching later in London while her husband, a fellow school teacher whom she married in 1936, completed his doctorate in education.
They returned to Perth, Australia in 1938 but Dorothy Lucie Sanders only began her writing in 1945, producing articles, short stories, and later novels. In 1948 her first novel, Fairies on the Doorstep, was published.
As Lucy Walker, she wrote about 39 romance books:
Fairies On the Doorstep (1948)
Who Leaves the Crowd (1952)
The One Who Kisses (1954)
Sweet and Faraway (1955)
Come Home Dear (1956)
Heaven is Here (1957)
Master of Ransome (1958)
Kingdom of the heart (1959)
The Stranger from the North (1959)
Love in a Cloud (1960)
The Loving Heart (1960)
The Moonshiner (1961)
Wife to Order (1961)
The Distant Hills (1962)
Down in the Forest (1962)
The Call of the Pines (1963)
Follow Your Star (1963)
The Man from Outback (1964)
Reaching for the Stars (1964)
A Man Called Masters (1965)
The Other Girl (1965)
The Ranger in the Hills (1966)
The River Is Down (1967)
Home at Sundown (1968)
The Gone-Away Man (1969)
Shining River (1969)
Six for Heaven (1969)
Joyday for Jodi (1971)
The Bell Branch (1971)
The Mountain That Went to the Sea (1971)
Ribbons In Her Hair (1972)
Pepper Tree Bay (1972)
Pool of Dreams (1973)
Girl Alone (1973)
Monday in Summer (1973)
Runaway Girl (1975)
Gamma's Girl (1977)
So Much Love (1977)
These romance novels were very successful in Australia and overseas. The stories were meticulously researched; the writer travelled extensively in the Western Australian outback, recording details of scenery, personalities and social customs in her notebooks and diaries.
Other pseudonyms used by this author: Shelley Dean, Dorothy Lucie Sanders, and Lucy Walker.
Dorothy Lucie Sanders was widowed in 1986 and died the following year. Her daughter and two sons survived her.
Lucy Walker (1907–1987) was the most famous of a few pseudonyms used by Dorothy Lucie Sanders (née McClemans). She was born in Boulder, Western Australia, on 4 May 1907. Her father was of Irish stock, a minister of the Church of England. Her mother was from New Zealand. Dorothy began writing at an early age, despite her father’s scepticism about her ability.
A qualified teacher from Perth College (1928), she taught in state schools in Western Australia until 1936. She continued teaching later in London while her husband, a fellow school teacher whom she married in 1936, completed his doctorate in education.
They returned to Perth, Australia in 1938 but Dorothy Lucie Sanders only began her writing in 1945, producing articles, short stories, and later novels. In 1948 her first novel, Fairies on the Doorstep, was published.
As Lucy Walker, she wrote about 39 romance books:
Fairies On the Doorstep (1948)
Who Leaves the Crowd (1952)
The One Who Kisses (1954)
Sweet and Faraway (1955)
Come Home Dear (1956)
Heaven is Here (1957)
Master of Ransome (1958)
Kingdom of the heart (1959)
The Stranger from the North (1959)
Love in a Cloud (1960)
The Loving Heart (1960)
The Moonshiner (1961)
Wife to Order (1961)
The Distant Hills (1962)
Down in the Forest (1962)
The Call of the Pines (1963)
Follow Your Star (1963)
The Man from Outback (1964)
Reaching for the Stars (1964)
A Man Called Masters (1965)
The Other Girl (1965)
The Ranger in the Hills (1966)
The River Is Down (1967)
Home at Sundown (1968)
The Gone-Away Man (1969)
Shining River (1969)
Six for Heaven (1969)
Joyday for Jodi (1971)
The Bell Branch (1971)
The Mountain That Went to the Sea (1971)
Ribbons In Her Hair (1972)
Pepper Tree Bay (1972)
Pool of Dreams (1973)
Girl Alone (1973)
Monday in Summer (1973)
Runaway Girl (1975)
Gamma's Girl (1977)
So Much Love (1977)
These romance novels were very successful in Australia and overseas. The stories were meticulously researched; the writer travelled extensively in the Western Australian outback, recording details of scenery, personalities and social customs in her notebooks and diaries.
Other pseudonyms used by this author: Shelley Dean, Dorothy Lucie Sanders, and Lucy Walker.
Dorothy Lucie Sanders was widowed in 1986 and died the following year. Her daughter and two sons survived her.
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June 2, 2023
I have read 2 other LW books and really enjoyed them.
This one was interminably boring.
Nairee comes back from college on her 18th birthday. Mrs Lacey is always nice but very standoffish. Dean is always hovering in the background but unwilling to make contact. The ranger is nice but in a sort-of creepy way. Everyone else clearly likes Nairee but noone is close. And Nairee is always ... Oh Mark! ... Oh Dean... noone actually says what they mean, including Nairee.
People always seem to show up and creep around Nairee without any clear idea what their thoughts are. Pretty much nothing goes on for 90% of the book except Nairee wondering what everyone is hiding from her. Then... the big reveal, which was pretty anticlimatic.
The only characters I liked were Nairee, Gamma and Woola.
This one was interminably boring.
Nairee comes back from college on her 18th birthday. Mrs Lacey is always nice but very standoffish. Dean is always hovering in the background but unwilling to make contact. The ranger is nice but in a sort-of creepy way. Everyone else clearly likes Nairee but noone is close. And Nairee is always ... Oh Mark! ... Oh Dean... noone actually says what they mean, including Nairee.
People always seem to show up and creep around Nairee without any clear idea what their thoughts are. Pretty much nothing goes on for 90% of the book except Nairee wondering what everyone is hiding from her. Then... the big reveal, which was pretty anticlimatic.
The only characters I liked were Nairee, Gamma and Woola.
May 26, 2022
A Fairytale for Children
Nairee doesn't know who her parents are. Surrounding her life are Gamma, tall, good-looking Ranger Mark Allen, attractive Dean Lacey, his mother Mrs Lacey and Wooley, the aborigine woman who knows all the secrets. Nairee loves living with her "grandma" on The Patch but wonders why Mark, Dean and his mother care so much about her.
Nairee doesn't know who her parents are. Surrounding her life are Gamma, tall, good-looking Ranger Mark Allen, attractive Dean Lacey, his mother Mrs Lacey and Wooley, the aborigine woman who knows all the secrets. Nairee loves living with her "grandma" on The Patch but wonders why Mark, Dean and his mother care so much about her.
September 16, 2014
Like Pepper Tree Bay, plot thin and romance negligible. Some points also don't make any sense either, and attempts to heighten the mystery fall flat and leave characters behaving in ways that don't make sense.
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