The Bark Cutters

Nicole Alexander

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Bantam
01 March 2011

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Bargains; Australian Fiction

A sweeping rural saga through four generations of the Gordon family, from bestselling author Nicole Alexander, whose novels go right to the 'heart of Australian storytelling'.

A sweeping rural saga through four generations of the Gordon family, from bestselling author Nicole Alexander, whose novels go right to the 'heart of Australian storytelling'.

Sarah Gordon knows what she wants- the family homestead, Wangallon. When it comes to working the homestead she's a natural but, as a woman, it's not her birthright. Even when her beloved older brother is killed in a tragic accident, nobody looks to Sarah to inherit. Instead her grandfather passes management to Anthony Carrington, who was once Wangallon's jackeroo.

Feeling betrayed, Sarah escapes to Sydney to try to put Wangallon behind her. But her heart is pulled in two directions- Sydney with its cafes and social life, her blossoming career as a photographer, and her accountant boyfriend, Jeremy. Or the property that has been in her family for over 120 years, with its floods, its droughts, the ghosts of generations past, and Anthony...

Past and present interweave in a story that traces the Gordon family from the arrival of Scottish immigrant Hamish Gordon in Australia in the 1850s to the life of his great-granddaughter, Sarah.

'Alexander writes

with

a deep love of the land' Courier-Mail

By: Nicole Alexander
Imprint: Bantam
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 342g
ISBN: 9781864711622
ISBN 10: 1864711620
Pages: 512
Publication Date: 01 March 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Nicole Alexander's poetry, travel and genealogy articles have been published in Australia, America and Singapore.

Reviews for The Bark Cutters

Captures the lives of four generations of one rural family. Alexander splits her story into two time zones tracing the family back to the 1850's. -- Sunday Mail Brisbane