A waltz for Matilda
French, Jackie2010
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In 1894 twelve-year-old Matilda flees the city slums to find her unknown father and his farm. But as drought bites deep her father has turned swaggie, member of the Shearers' Union. He's wanted by the troopers for burning down a shearing shed, and his daughter has to watch as the terrifying events by the billabong unfold.Set against drought, flood, bushfire, war and jubilation, this is a story rooted in the words of our most famous national song. It is a love-song to a land and to a nation, told from the points of view of those who had no vote in 1901: the women, the Indigenous people, the Chinese market-gardeners, the Afghan traders.
Main title:
A waltz for Matilda / Jackie French.
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Imprint:
Pymble, N.S.W. : HarperCollins Publishers Australia, 2010.
Collation:
479 p. ; 20 cm.
ISBN:
9780732290214 (pbk)073229021X (pbk)
Dewey class:
A823.3
Language:
English
Related title:
A Waltz for Matilda [electronic resource]
Subject:
BRN:
125779
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| narrm ngarrgu Library and Family Services | Junior Middle Fiction | J MIDDLE FRENC | Available |