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The Drover's Wife

The Legend of Molly Johnson

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The Drover's Wife

Von: Leah Purcell
Gesprochen von: Leah Purcell
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 Deep in the heart of Australia's high country, along an ancient, hidden track, live Molly Johnson and her children. Husband Joe is away droving, leaving his family in the bush to fend for itself. Molly's children are her world, and life is hard with only their dog, Alligator, and a shotgun for protection - but it can be harder when Joe's around.

Molly's eldest son Danny is the true man of the house, determined to see his mother and siblings safe - from raging floodwaters, hunger and intruders. Danny is mature, but there are some things no child should see. He knows more than most just what it takes to be a drover's wife.

One night, Molly has a visitor - a black 'story keeper', Yadaka. He's on the run from authorities, and exchanges kindness for shelter. Both know that justice in this nation caught between two worlds can be as brutal as its landscape. But in their short time together Yadaka shows Molly a secret truth, and the strength to imagine a different path.

In this brave reimagining of the Henry Lawson short story that has become an Australian classic, Purcell brings us a compelling thriller of our pioneering past that confronts head-on issues of today: race, gender, violence and inheritance.©2021 Leah Purcell (P)2021 Penguin Random House Australia Belletristik
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I have watched the movie and I loved it. After learning that Leah Purcell, who had written the screenplay also had written the book, I had to have it. So I bought the printed version and was immediately disappointed because the delivery from England to my hometown in Germany would take 2-3 weeks. I didn't want to wait that long, so I did what I never did before and what I've always promised myself never to do: I bought the audiobook. After learning that Leah Purcell also was the one reading it. Big fan in the making here. :) I listened to the whole book in two days. And I did what I almost never do. I cried. Rivers.
The book is way more detailed than the movie and I did not expect it to be so good and the story to be so gut-wrenching because of all the details and background stories.
This book is definately my new favorite and I hope that everybody who reads it will feel the same way.

To Leah (in case you'll ever read this):
Thank you! For the laughs and the cries and for taking so much effort and bringing these characters (especially Molly) to life. The story is written with lots of love.
And I too hope, that there will be another one. :)

All the best,
Chris

My new favorite

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