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Journey to the Stone Country (Hardback)
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|Short Description for Journey to the Stone CountryBetrayed by her husband, Annabelle retreats in confusion to the supposed sanctuary of her old family home in tropical Townsville. There she meets and begins to work with ex-stockman and Jangga, Bo. Intrigued by his assertion that he holds the key to her future, she begins on a path into her past.
Full description- Publisher: Allen & Unwin
- Published: 01 October 2002
- Format: Hardback 376 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9781865086194 ISBN 10: 1865086193
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Full description for Journey to the Stone Country
Journey to the Stone Country moves from the great southern city of Melbourne to the forbidding and beautiful isolation of the high ranges of the Bowen Basin, the ancient heartland of the Jangga people in remote North Queensland. Betrayed by her husband, Annabelle Beck retreats in confusion and pain to the supposed sanctuary of her old family home in tropical Townsville. There she meets and begins to work with Bo Rennie, an ex-stockman and Jangga. Annabelle is increasingly intrigued by Bo's modest assurances that he holds the key to her future and she sets out with him on a path of recovery that leads her back to her childhood. On the journey, secrets are uncovered which have remained buried in her family for a generation or more; secrets whose terrible moral force will challenge the possibility of happiness with this man. As they draw closer to the place of their origins, so the deeply rooted contradictions embedded within the cultures and lives of Annabelle Beck and Bo Rennie are exposed layer by layer. Can their love grow, or even survive, with the terrible knowledge that comes into their possession at the end of their journey? With the consummate arti
