The Drover's Wife

Author(s): Leah Purcell

Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Australian author

Leah Purcell's play caused a sensation on performance and won the NSW Premier's Prize Book of the Year and now she is expanding that play and a film script to write a novel that while still 'Tarantino meets Deadwood' is also so much more. In the titular character The Drover's Wife, Purcell has created a figure who is as resonant and significant as Ned Kelly. Lawson's original short story is reimagined vividly to portray the drover's heroic wife as a righteous avenger - on behalf of herself, her children and her race - in a savage male world. A taut thriller of our pioneering past, The Drover's Wife is full of fury, power, family love and intimate friendships and has a black sting to the tail, reaching from our nation's settled infancy into our complicated present.

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Longlisted ABIA Awards 2020

General Fields

  • : 9780143791478
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : 0.435
  • : November 2018
  • : 2.5 Centimeters X 15.4 Centimeters X 23.4 Centimeters
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : FA
  • : 288
  • : 1 Fiction
  • : 819.2
  • : 1
  • : Paperback
  • : Leah Purcell