![]() ![]() 'this is a genuine gem that is impossible to put down and must be swallowed whole in one sitting. It has everything: horses, poems, ghosts, heroism, war, the bush and a love story.' - Saturday Age ![]() when I was 11 or 12, I would have read and reread it until it fell to bits. 'Jackie French has a passion for history, and an enviable ability to weave the fascinating minutiae of everyday life into a good story.' - Magpies Magazine Miss Matilda is still running Drinkwater Station, but has put aside her own tragedy to help those suffering in tough economic times and Joey, from The Girl from Snowy River, uses his new medical skills to solve a mystery. This third book in the Waltz for Matilda saga is set in 1932, at the height of the Depression. ![]() A headless skeleton dangles in the House of Horrors. The bearded lady is a young man with laughing eyes. The unquenchable Madame Zlosky creates as well as foresees futures. Trade unions engaged in strikes, notably in the wool industry. A page-turning, heart-warming family saga set in the Snowy Mountains during the Depression in the 1930s.īlue Laurence has escaped the prison of her aunt's mansion to join the Magnifico Family Circus, a travelling troupe that brings glamour and laughter to country towns gripped by the Depression.īlue hides her crippled legs and scars behind the sparkle of a mermaid's costume but she's not the only member of the circus hiding a dark secret. At the turn of the last century Australian women lobbied for the right to vote, depression and drought caused widespread unemployment and young men enlisted to fight in the Boer War. ![]()
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