Ruby Moonlight

Ali Cobby Eckermann
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Ruby Moonlight, a novel of the impact of colonisation in mid north South Australia around 1880. The main character, Ruby, refugee of a massacre, shelters in the woods where she befriends an Irishman trapper. The poems convey how fear of discovery is overcome by the need for human contact which, in a tense unravelling of events, is forcibly challenged by an Aboriginal lawman. The natural world is richly observed and Ruby's courtship is measured by the turning of the seasons.
Genres: PoetryAustraliaIndigenousHistorical FictionHistoricalFictionRomanceYoung AdultNovel In Verse
64 Pages

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