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Waiting at the Sliprails

ISBN-13: 9780645441543
Publisher: PACIFIC WANDERLAND
Imprint: PACIFIC WANDERLAND
By Sara Powter
Price: AUD $29.99
Stock: 15 in stock
Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
Local release date: 29/08/2023
Format: Paperback (215.00mm X 139.00mm) 191 pages Weight: 300g
Categories: Historical fiction [FV]

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Google Preview: Waiting at the Sliprails. Hawkesbury River area 1820s, Blue Mountains 1830s. As her term of conviction expires, London bred, Beatrice Dawes must consider her life ahead. She has few options open to her; therefore, Bea accepts the only offer of marriage she is likely to receive. It was either marrying a stranger or going on the street, and she wouldn't let that happen. Jack Barnes, a hired drover, appears, and he wants a wife. Bea has no idea what a drover is, but it sounds romantic. However, she discovers that a drover could be gone for months at a time, and the only people she would be left with were Billy and Netty, part of the tribe of aborigines who lived on their secluded farm. Jack and Bea marry and move on to his isolated farm. Bea learns to love not only her husband but also this wonderful aboriginal couple. Netty delivers her babies and brings her comfort. Bea relies on them while awaiting Jack's return. His letters are filled with the many adventures he experiences on his travels, yet she can read between the lines and knows he wants to be home. Then a visitor arrives and turns their lives upside down. Bea’s love and forgiveness break through the wall their visitor had carefully constructed around herself.; Sara Powter was born on the NSW Central Coast in 1959. Her childhood was spent with her parents travelling mostly up and down the East Coast of Australia, fishing, Shell collecting and doing some of her education by Correspondence Schooling. With a passion for Science she worked for the Department of Agriculture as a Scientific Assistant in the Entomology Department. She married Stephen soon after leaving there and they spent 30 years in Ministry in the Newcastle Anglican Diocese in NSW, only retiring at the end of 2020. When ‘Covid 19’ hit, ‘time’ was available to pen some of the stories she’d wanted to write for some time. Within just four months, three stories were finished and a fourth on the way. These stem from her passion of Colonial Australia, her convict Ancestors and the amazing history of the Amazing country, Australia! Sara did thess as she wishe dto finishe one of her mothers unfinished manuscripts. "Dancing to her own tune" is now completed and ties in Sheila Hunter's Australian Trilogy with Sara's Lockley series. There is a second prequel to these that she's nearing completion. "Amelia's Tears" . Watch for more...; Google Preview content