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  • Australian Country

    OFF THE SHELF

    Jul 17, 2019 3 minutes
    COMPILED BY BETHANY SHEA

    STONE COUNTRY

    NICOLE ALEXANDER, PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE AUSTRALIA, $32.99

    icole Alexander lives and farms in remote NSW, so she brings intimate insight to her fictionalised tales of life on the land and all its challenges from droughts and flooding plains to inheritance, family aspirations and the class and race distinctions that so dominated pastoral life well into the 20th century. In this, her ninth novel, she traces the fortunes of Ross Grant, born to the landed gentry, but at odds with his wanderlust and desire to escape the shackles of his family. She borrows from historical fact in a gripping tale

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