The Last Station
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3.6 • 8 Ratings
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- $23.99
Publisher Description
In nineteenth-century New South Wales, the name Dalhunty stood for prosperity and prestige. The family's vast station was home to more than 80 people, and each year their premium wool was shipped down the bustling Darling River to be sold in South Australia.
Yet, just decades later, Dalhunty Station is on the brink of ruin . . .
In the summer of 1909, eccentric Benjamin Dalhunty and his son Julian anxiously await the arrival of the Lady Matilda, the first paddle-steamer to navigate the river in more than two years. It will transport their very last wool clip to market.
Twenty-year-old Julian wants more from life than the crumbling station, but as the eldest son his future has been set since birth.
Until the day his mother invites a streetwise young man from Sydney into their home . . .
Ethan Harris's arrival shines a light on a family at breaking point. But he also unwittingly offers Julian an escape, as the young men embark on a perilous journey down the Darling and west into untamed lands.
The Last Station is a captivating story of heritage, heartbreak and hope, set during the dying days of the riverboat trade along the Darling River.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Nicole Alexander specialises in sweeping novels set against the Australian landscape. That’s certainly the case for The Last Station, a historical saga centred on a prodigious wool station near the Darling River. But as commercial riverboats ebb more and more in the early days of the 20th century, the Dalhunty family faces a bleak future. Just as young Julian Dalhunty accepts his family’s fate, the arrival of a newcomer provides him with a potential escape off the station and into adventure. The river itself is as much of a character as the spirited members of the Dalhunty clan, who butt heads on the way to envisioning a viable future for themselves. Australian actor Nicholas Brown narrates the story with both empathy and expansiveness, capturing the end of one era and the start of another.
Customer Reviews
The Last Station
2.5/5. The narrator was not the right reader for this story.