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Country Australia Pages 320 pp | 3.4/5 Goodreads Language English Publication date 1929 Originally published 1929 OCLC 1133739 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Coonardoo warmbloods
Coonardoo: The Well in the Shadow is a novel written by the Australian author Katharine Susannah Prichard. The novel evocatively depicts the Australian landscape as it was in the late 1920s, in an age when white settlers tried to control more and more of the bare plains of northwest Australia.
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Originally written under the name Jim Ashburton, this novel was joint winner of the Bulletin Novel Competition in 1928. It shared the award with A House is Built by M. Barnard Eldershaw.
It was first serialised in The Bulletin magazine in 15 weekly instalments from 5 September 1928.
Coonardoo warmbloods
Plot
The novel relates the story of an Aboriginal woman who was prepared since her childhood to be Wytaliba station's housekeeper, but falls in love and has a romance with her owner Hugh Watt a white man.