The Road from Coorain
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3.0 • 1 Rating
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
In the 1930s, Jill Ker's parents bought a sheep farm on the western plains of New South Wales. In 1944, they lost nearly everything when a drought hit. Forced to leave Coorain, 11-year-old Jill and her mother settled in Sydney where Jill struggled to find a place for herself among Sydney's elite. Her story, both a chronicle of life in the Australian outback and the odyssey of a brilliant woman fighting the constraints of her time, offers a loving view of Australia. Includes a taped afterword by the author.
Customer Reviews
Australian story. Why the American narrator?
The story is great. But the narrator is completely wrong. It’s an Australian memoir read by an American with a pseudo-English accent, the kind I imagine was taught in elocution classes in Connecticut in 1915. Not a bad voice, but a mismatch for this story.