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The Waddi Tree
- Narrated by: Humphrey Bower
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Two branches of the McAllister family lead very different lives on cattle stations in Central Australia. Rob, a stickler for correctness, manages a wealthy, company-owned property while his easygoing brother, Sandy, struggles to support his wife and son on an impoverished leasehold. When tragedy throws the families together, it ultimately drives them even further apart.
Sandy's young son Jim suffers the most. Left to rebuild his shattered world, he falls back on the larger-than-life station characters and the comfort of horses. This is tough country, where personal hardship is kept in perspective by drought, fire and isolation. The times are just as unforgiving, and as the years pass, Jim discovers that he must pay for his father's mistake as well as his own. Yet this harshly beautiful land is full of promise and a source of strength to Jim on his road from innocence to independence.
©2006 Kerry McGinnis (P)2006 Bolinda Publishers Pty Ltd.
What the critics say
"McGinnis has the eye of a painter; she writes as she sees and the land come alive." ( Weekend Australian)