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THREE RIVERS ROAD
Three Rivers Road takes you on a surprising and provocative journey through the eyes of a nurse in Outback Australia.
Amy Bernaud is stuck in a rut in Melbourne, Australia. She hates her risky job, and the cold winter. The only hope left for her is Jack Macleod. That hope is short lived with his shallow avowals of love and alcoholic misdemeanors.
Amy packs her bags and soon lands in the beautiful Kimberley of Western Australia. There she ends up with more than she bargained for with no Aboriginal cultural awareness, no familiar allies, and looming unrest.
Her learning curve is steep as she goes about her new job. Amy’s struggle and the communities are exposed, and a story of courage and empathy unfolds as she tackles modern and traditional issues of life, love, community and outback disasters. Previous losses, disruptions, secrecy, chronic health issues, domestic violence, sly grog, and strange ominous spirits unsettle her.
So what’s it really like working as nurse in an unfamiliar and remote corner of Australia?
Based on the authors own experiences working as a nurse in the bush over the years, this Australian Outback fictional drama-romance gives a thought provoking account of a white woman fighting the odds amidst a mysterious landscape, ancient culture, great efforts, fight backs, battles won and lost, despair and the greatest of all, love, faith and hope.
Amy Bernaud is stuck in a rut in Melbourne, Australia. She hates her risky job, and the cold winter. The only hope left for her is Jack Macleod. That hope is short lived with his shallow avowals of love and alcoholic misdemeanors.
Amy packs her bags and soon lands in the beautiful Kimberley of Western Australia. There she ends up with more than she bargained for with no Aboriginal cultural awareness, no familiar allies, and looming unrest.
Her learning curve is steep as she goes about her new job. Amy’s struggle and the communities are exposed, and a story of courage and empathy unfolds as she tackles modern and traditional issues of life, love, community and outback disasters. Previous losses, disruptions, secrecy, chronic health issues, domestic violence, sly grog, and strange ominous spirits unsettle her.
So what’s it really like working as nurse in an unfamiliar and remote corner of Australia?
Based on the authors own experiences working as a nurse in the bush over the years, this Australian Outback fictional drama-romance gives a thought provoking account of a white woman fighting the odds amidst a mysterious landscape, ancient culture, great efforts, fight backs, battles won and lost, despair and the greatest of all, love, faith and hope.
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186 pages, Paperback
First published June 22, 2015
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June 23, 2015
Jane Batholomew, in her debut book Three Rivers Road transports the reader from the cold, bleak Melbourne winter, to sunny Perth and on to the mysterious beauty of the Kimberley. Amy Bernaud, a overworked nurse, flees a troubled romance with artist, Jack McLeod, to work in a remote outback community. She encounters a steep learning curve, a magical landscape, people larger than life, challenges she couldn't imagine and new possibilities.
Three Rivers Road is an enchanting book that brings the starkness and beauty and of the Kimberley and its people to life. Amy faces predicaments with compassion, sensitivity and a growing awareness, at times questioning, at other accepting and being accepted. Characters such as Quade, Gerry, Roger and others show the adversities facing remote communities and the bigger challenges of the towns in a heartwarming and hopeful way. Beautiful descriptive passages, drama, adventure, twists and turns and the blossoming of romance kept me interested to the end. Yet this book doesn't sugar-coat the realities or the difficulties facing indigenous communities in remote north-west of Australia. While a small amount of strong language is included it is never gratuitous.
Jane Batholomew (a pseudonym) has spent many years nursing in remote communities in Western Australia and the Norther Territory, in rural Australia and in busy Melbourne hospitals and ICUs. Jane brings her experience, keen eye for observation and description to bring a vivid grittiness to this fictional account. This novel is even more timely as many remote communities in Western Australia face closure due to lack of political will to support them.
I'm looking forward to the publication of the sequel from this exciting debut author.
I have watched Three River Roads grow and have been involved in it's gestation as a critique partner and a friend.
Three Rivers Road is an enchanting book that brings the starkness and beauty and of the Kimberley and its people to life. Amy faces predicaments with compassion, sensitivity and a growing awareness, at times questioning, at other accepting and being accepted. Characters such as Quade, Gerry, Roger and others show the adversities facing remote communities and the bigger challenges of the towns in a heartwarming and hopeful way. Beautiful descriptive passages, drama, adventure, twists and turns and the blossoming of romance kept me interested to the end. Yet this book doesn't sugar-coat the realities or the difficulties facing indigenous communities in remote north-west of Australia. While a small amount of strong language is included it is never gratuitous.
Jane Batholomew (a pseudonym) has spent many years nursing in remote communities in Western Australia and the Norther Territory, in rural Australia and in busy Melbourne hospitals and ICUs. Jane brings her experience, keen eye for observation and description to bring a vivid grittiness to this fictional account. This novel is even more timely as many remote communities in Western Australia face closure due to lack of political will to support them.
I'm looking forward to the publication of the sequel from this exciting debut author.
I have watched Three River Roads grow and have been involved in it's gestation as a critique partner and a friend.
October 31, 2015
Really enjoyed this one: anyone who has worked out bush will be transported back there in the pages of this book. When reading a book makes you happy, angry, sad you know the writing must be good to have those effects on you!! Great twist in the plot...looking forward to the next one.
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