Half wild
Smith, Pip, 1983-2017
Book
Sydney, 1938. After being hit by a car on Oxford Street, sixty-three-year-old Jean Ford lies in a coma in Sydney Hospital. Memories come back to her - a murder trial, a life in prison - but with each prick of the needle her memories begin to shift. Wellington, 1885. Tally Ho doesn't need to go to school because she is going to be a fisherman or a cart driver or a butcher boy like Harry Crawford. Wellington is her town and she makes up the rules. Papa takes her fishing, Nonno teaches her how to jump fences on his horse Geronimo - life gallops on the way it should, until a brother, baby William, is born. Taking the advice of her hero, Harry Crawford, she runs away. Sydney, 1917. The burned body of a woman is discovered on the banks of the Lane Cove River. Was she a mad woman? A drunk who'd accidentally set herself on fire?
Main title:
Half wild / Pip Smith.
Author:
Smith, Pip, 1983-, author
Work:
Imprint:
Crows Nest, NSW Allen & Unwin 2017.©2017
Collation:
390 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"Based on the true lives of Eugenia Falleni" -- Back cover.Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-390)
ISBN:
17602946409781760294649
Dewey class:
A823.4
Language:
English
Subject:
Falleni, Eugenia, 1875-1938 -- FictionTransgender people -- Identity -- FictionMurder -- Investigation -- FictionChildren -- New Zealand -- Wellington -- FictionMale impersonators -- FictionTransgender people -- FictionMemory -- FictionRunaways -- FictionTraffic accidents -- FictionFathers and daughters -- FictionAmnesia -- FictionSydney (N.S.W.) -- History -- 1901-1945 -- FictionWellington (N.Z.) -- FictionHistorical fictionBiographical fiction
BRN:
327351