TY - BOOK AU - French,Jackie TI - Clancy of the Overflow T2 - Matilda saga SN - 9781460754771 (paperback) AV - PR9599.F7390 C583 2019 U1 - A823.4 23 PY - 2019/// CY - Sydney, New South Wales PB - Angus & Robertson KW - Country life KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Australian fiction KW - fast KW - Families KW - Australia KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Grandparents KW - Interpersonal relations KW - History KW - Reminiscing KW - Fiction KW - Young adult fiction KW - Young adult fiction, Australian KW - Social conditions KW - 21st century KW - Historical fiction KW - lcgft N1 - "Sometimes I dream of Clancy..." -- Front cover; 14+ years N2 - Jed Kelly has finally persuaded her great aunt Nancy to tell the story of her grandparents. The tale that unfolds is one of Australia's greatest romances - that of Clancy of the Overflow, who gave up everything for Rose, the woman he adored, and yet still gained all he'd lost and more. But Nancy's story is not the history that Jed expects. More tales lurk behind the folklore that surrounds Clancy - the stories of the women hidden in Australia's long history, who forged a nation and whose voices need to be heard. It is also a story of many kinds of love. Clancy's growing passion for the bush, immortalised in Paterson's poem, which speaks to him in the ripple of the river and the song of the stars, and Nancy's need to pass on her deep understanding of her country. But perhaps the most moving love story of all is the one that never happened, between Matilda O'Halloran and Clancy of the Overflow ER -