TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fraser,Darry
TI  - The forthright woman
SN  - 9781038910264
U1  - A823.4 23
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Sydney, NSW
PB  - HQ Fiction
KW  - South Australia
KW  - Kanyaka
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Fiction
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Thrillers (Fiction)
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
N2  - "1898, South Australia: At the gateway to the Flinders Ranges lies Kanyaka Station, once a thriving sheep and cattle property, now abandoned and in ruins. But a discovery in her late mother's papers draws recently widowed Marcella Ross out to its remote landscape in search of clues to the disappearance of her Uncle Luca, an Italian immigrant whose fate seems to have been bound up in that of his mysterious partner - also long-since vanished. When Marcella is accosted by a daunting stranger, she discovers he too is entangled in the secrets of the past. Tragedy and obsession threaten Marcella's fragile independence, so how far will she have to go to unlock the secrets of Kanyaka - or solve the puzzle of her own future? 1955: After learning that they are unlikely to have children, Frances and Joe MacDonald have taken the unusual step of buying a caravan and travelling together through the outback. They stop at Kanyaka Station, where Fran becomes mesmerised by the past. Family lore holds that an ancestor met an untimely end amid the desolate ruins. But what truly happened, and to whom, at the isolated station? As fate alters the course of her life, Fran's footsteps echo another woman's from so long ago."--Back cover
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