![]() ![]() And the heroine? She is none other than Nancy of the Overflow, the granddaughter of Clancy of that ilk. Matilda herself, the daughter of ‘Banjo’ Paterson’s jolly swagman, is the mother of the heroine’s love interest in this new novel, young Michael Thompson. All are set in and around the fictional New South Wales town of Gibber’s Creek. One of these is size − they both fall only a little shy of 500 pages − and another is that both plunder Australian popular verse: the second and third of the Matilda saga are titled The Girl from Snowy River (2012) and The Road to Gundagai (2013) respectively. I have only read one other, A Waltz for Matilda (2012), the first in ‘the Matilda Saga’ for teens but these two books share at least one character and several characteristics. Jackie French, according to the press release for her new adult novel To Love a Sunburnt Country, has written over 140 books in a twenty-five-year career. ![]()
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