Ancestors

by Robyn Davidson

Lucy McTavish, an orphan, runs away from her eccentric aunt in rural Australia to start a new life in the city, but keeps falling in with the wrong people

Genres: Fiction, Australia

304 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Robyn Davidson was born on a cattle property in Queensland, Australia. She went to Sydney in the late sixties, then spent time studying in Brisbane before moving to Alice Springs, where the events of this book begin. Since then, she has traveled extensively, living in London, New York, and India. In the early 1990s, she migrated with and wrote about nomads in northwestern India. She is now based in Melbourne, but spends several months a year in the Indian Himalayas.

Reviews

[Siffy Torkildson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful story and beautiful prose. Highly recommended!

[Salsadancer · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lucy McTavish is an orphan sent to live with her eccentric great-aunt in the Australian outback during the 1960s. She later moves to a girl's school in Sydney, then time-travels via hallucination through Australia.