If Blood Should Stain the Wattle

by Jackie French

On Sale: 11/21/2016

If Blood Should Stain the Wattle

by Jackie French

On Sale: 11/21/2016

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About the Book

It’s 1972, and across Australia the catchcry is ‘It’s time’.


Time for old folk, time for young folk, time for a new, idealistic Labor government.

In Gibber's Creek, it's time for Jed Kelly to choose between past love, Nicholas, the local Labor member, and Sam from the Halfway to Eternity commune. And for Scarlett O'Hara, it's time to dream that one day she becomes a doctor - despite being in a wheelchair.

It's also time for matriarch Matilda Thompson to reflect on the life that took her from the slums of Grinder's Alley to the events that began a nation at a billabong in 1894.

The 1970s was a time of extraordinary ideals of a better world, but as the ideals drifted from disaster to the Dismissal there were deep conflicts about what that better world might be.

Jackie French, author of the bestselling To Love a Sunburnt Country, has woven her own experience of that period into an unforgettable story of a small rural community and a nation swept into the social and political tumult of the early 1970s.

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Product Details

  • ISBN: 9781460705933
  • ISBN 10: 1460705939
  • Imprint: HarperCollins
  • On Sale: 11/21/2016
  • Pages: 544
  • List Price:23.45 CAD
  • BISAC1 : JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / General
  • BISAC2 : JUVENILE FICTION / Politics & Government
  • BISAC3 : JUVENILE FICTION / Social Themes / Special Needs
  • BISAC4 : JUVENILE FICTION / Family / General (see also headings under Social Themes)
  • BISAC5 : JUVENILE FICTION / Love & Romance

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