For months now, I’ve had an ongoing dream. And if you believe that dreams have meanings, some underlying purpose, what would you make of mine?
Jess and Brad’s marriage is in trouble. They are two good people who don’t know how to cope with what life has dealt them. Jess begrudgingly accompanies Brad on a research trip to the Diamantina, in western Queensland. Here she discovers old papers belonging to the woman who had lived on the property in the 1870s. The sense of grief that Jess reads about in those long-ago diaries echoes her own. And it is the eventual discovery of a child’s grave that helps her put her own life and losses into perspective.
From Ireland in 1867, to far western Queensland in the present day, Robyn Lee Burrows draws the past into the present with engaging and devastating effect. First published by Harper Collins 2004.
West of the Blue Gums is available in audio book, e-book and print-on-demand formats from amazon.com.au.