Curlew Rising by Don Douglas

Curlew Rising by Don DouglasISBN: 978 0 6453511 9 4 284 page paperback Young Eliza McDonald is sent to live with her grandparents in Kalgoorlie to attend high school, but when shes sixteen she is assaulted by the school principal, who she murders in desperation. She goes on the run, relentlessly pursued by a young detective, Lance McLeod, who hounds her to Surfers Paradise, Townsville and to her home at Tomahawk Plains in the Territory. After her grandfather Ben dies of a heart

Pages: 640

She stayed only a year

'Barron echoes the work of authors such as MacLean

A new breed of settler was pushing out into the frontier

With the help of local man

the family station

spending months on end in the Congo (the setting for his first novel

Lives are endangered and lost during the quest for redemption in which only one side can triumph

from Gumeracha

This fictional account is based on the recollections of settlers and pioneers

Eventually

Don learned to ride young – at two years old his mother would carry him on a cushion on the pommel of her saddle