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Half Wild
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Sydney, 1938. After being hit by a car on Oxford Street, sixty-three-year-old Jean Ford lies in a coma in Sydney Hospital. Doctors talk across her body, nurses jab her in the arm with morphine, detectives arrive to take her fingerprints. She has 100 in her
pocket, but no identification. Memories come back to hera murder trial, a life in prisonbut with each prick of the needle her memories begin to shift.
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Wellington, 1885. Tally Ho doesnt need to go to school because she is going to be a fisherman or a cart driver or a butcher boy like Harry Crawford. Wellington is her town and she makes up the rules. Pap takes her fishing, Nonno teaches her how to jump fences on his horse Geronimolife gallops on the way it should, until a brother, baby William, is born. Go and play with your sisters, Pap says, but wearing dresses and sipping tea is not the life for Tally Ho. Taking the advice of her hero, Harry Crawford, she runs away.
Sydney, 1917. The burned body of a woman is discovered on the banks of the Lane Cove River. Was she a mad woman? A drunk whod accidentally set herself on fire? Nobody knows, untilthree years latera tailors apprentice tells police that his mother went missing that same weekend, and that his stepfather, Harry Crawford, is not who he seems to be. Who, then, is he?
Based on the true lives of Eugenia Falleni, Half Wild is Pip Smith's dazzling debut novel.
Featured in the 10 July 2017 New Zealand Newsletter.
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