The Road from Coorain

The Road from Coorain

By Jill Ker Conway
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“A small masterpiece.” 

John Kenneth Galbraith

Finalist for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Biography

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.