Half Wild - Smith Pip - 2017

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390 pages. Covers have no creasing. Edges of covers have superficial edgewear and corners are moderately bumped. Spine is uncreased. Pages are lightly tanned and lightly creased. After being hit by a car on Oxford Street, sixty-three-year-old Jean Ford lies in a coma in Sydney Hospital. Doctors talk across her body, nurses jab her in the arm with morphine, detectives arrive to take her fingerprints. She has GBP100 in her pocket, but no identification. Memories come back to her - a murder trial, a life in prison - but with each prick of the needle her memories begin to shift. Wellington, 1885. Tally Ho doesn't need to go to school because she is going to be a fisherman or a cart driver or a butcher boy like Harry Crawford. Wellington is her town and she makes up the rules. Papa takes her fishing, Nonno teaches her how to jump fences on his horse Geronimo - life gallops on the way it should, until a brother, baby William, is born. 'Go and play with your sisters,' Papa says, but wearing dresses and sipping tea is not the life for Tally Ho. Taking the advice of her hero, Harry Crawford, she runs away. Sydney, 1917. The burned body of a woman is discovered on the banks of the Lane Cove River. Was she a mad woman? A drunk who'd accidentally set herself on fire? Nobody knows, until-three years later - a tailor's apprentice tells police that his mother went missing that same weekend, and that his stepfather, Harry Crawford, is not who he seems to be. Who, then, is he? Based on the true lives of Eugenia Falleni, Half Wild is Pip Smith's dazzling debut novel. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Australian; ISBN/EAN: 9781760294649. Inventory No: 19030568. By: Smith Pip Year: 2017 Visit our website to view thousands more products like this and order online at: