The years ahead are a combination of survival, love, hardship, heartbreak, and finding herself as a young woman. And, just like that, Matilda is devoted to this wide, brown land. Her father is not what she expected, certainly not the man of her mother's romantic stories - yet the two find a bond. Instead of giving in to the life everyone thinks she is destined for, a life of virtual slavery and bare survival, she runs away to find the father she has never met. This is the story of one young girl, Matilda, who is left alone when her mother dies. Moving into the twentieth century was an intriguing time for Australia - a world so different from the one we now live in, and one that Jackie French immerses us in completely. It was a land where anything went men could be forced to work long hours for the bare minimum, children could be taken from school and forced to work, and racism did not exist - people being treated not just differently, but inhumanely, was simply a fact of life. Not yet one nation, Australia was merely a number of states sitting side by side. A time of drought, of establishing life in this new country, a time of great change.
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