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Judy Nunn - Pilbara

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A stunning tale about loyalty and survival from a master storyteller.

The Pilbara, late 1800s: Frontier country, the wild west of Australia - a lawless, violent place where treachery is a way of life.

Widower Charles Burton arrives in this forbidding corner of the world with his three young children. They've travelled half the globe, from the lush rolling hills of the Yorkshire Dales, on a mission to save their family's sheep and cattle property, which has been forced into debt by the avarice of a ruthless Londoner. Rebuilding the fortunes of Burton Station will ask everything of Charles and his children, particularly daughter Victoria, who will at times threaten to bring about their downfall.

Here in the oldest landscape on earth, survival has always proved a battle. And when greed takes over, the battle only intensifies. The Indigenous are robbed of their lands and their very way of life as every new arrival fights for the riches on offer - the grazing territory, the pearls and the gold. Amid all this brutality, can the Burtons and their allies conquer the savagery that abounds in this beautiful but cruel part of the world?

From Yorkshire to Cossack in Western Australia, and London to Tahiti in French Polynesia, Pilbara is the tale of a family on a mission to restore the honour of its name.

About the author: 

Judy Nunn AM is an Australian literary icon and master storyteller. With over twenty books over thirty years, and over a million copies sold in Australia alone, readers everywhere are passionate about her stories of her country and its people, told with Judy's trademark authenticity and filled with unforgettable characters who live on long after the final page. From the stage to the screen and the page, Judy has always been a storyteller, and her significant service to the performing arts and to literature was recognised in 2015 when she was made a Member of the Order of Australia.

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