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Simply a magnificent novel of rural life in Australia in the 1920s and certainly one of the best works of fiction I’ve read. All the characters burst into life off the page ….. mate.

I read this book in school when I was a boy. I can’t recall much of it except that I liked it. Now reading it as a grown up I quickly see how excellent the writing is. The author just described a crown fire that put the fear in me as if I were there. And I have been there. I’m looking forward to taking the whole novel into me.