Dear Fran, Love Dulcie
Life and Death in the Hills and Hollows of Bygone Australia
Imagine a true story that unfolds in the harshness of Australia's outback, beginning in 1957 and spanning decades. Imagine Dulcie's battle to keep her family and animals alive in spite of bushfires, floods, cyclones, droughts, dingo attacks and terrible accidents. The story of Dulcie, a simple Queensland pineapple farmer's wife, is a tale of twists and turns with an ending that will leave you gasping. "Shocking, yet heart-warming. Overwhelmingly gripping." Beth Haslam, author of the Fat Dogs and French Estates series. "Wow! Goosebumps." Elizabeth Moore, author of the Someday Travels series and Top 1000 Amazon reviewer. "A truly remarkable young woman and a unique record of Australian life." Valerie Poore, author of Watery Ways. "Once read, never forgotten." Victoria Twead, New York Times bestselling author of the Old Fools series. "There are no words that can do this book justice." Julie Haigh, Top 1000 Amazon reviewer.
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Imagine a true story that unfolds in the harshness of Australia's outback, beginning in 1957 and spanning decades. Imagine Dulcie's battle to keep her family and animals alive in spite of bushfires, floods, cyclones, droughts, dingo attacks and terrible accidents. The story of Dulcie, a simple Queensland pineapple farmer's wife, is a tale of twists and turns with an ending that will leave you gasping. "Shocking, yet heart-warming. Overwhelmingly gripping." Beth Haslam, author of the Fat Dogs and French Estates series. "Wow! Goosebumps." Elizabeth Moore, author of the Someday Travels series and Top 1000 Amazon reviewer. "A truly remarkable young woman and a unique record of Australian life." Valerie Poore, author of Watery Ways. "Once read, never forgotten." Victoria Twead, New York Times bestselling author of the Old Fools series. "There are no words that can do this book justice." Julie Haigh, Top 1000 Amazon reviewer.
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Life and Death in the Hills and Hollows of Bygone Australia
H | B | T | Gramm
229 mm | 152 mm | 13 mm | 362 gr
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
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Taschenbuch
Verlag
Ant Press
ISBN-10
1922476471
ISBN-13
9781922476470
Autor
Victoria Twead
Sprache
Englisch
Seitenanzahl
246
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Tatsachenberichte: Heldentum, Abenteuer, Überleben
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