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Foal's Bread

Foal's Bread

by Gillian Mears
Paperback
Publication Date: 29/03/2012

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Set in hardscrabble farming country around the show jumping circuit that flourished in Australia prior to the Second World War, Foal's Bread tells the story of two generations of the Nancarrow family and their fortunes as dictated by the vicissitudes of the land.

When Noah Childs meets Roley Nancarrow at a country show, a union is forged which will last the length of their lives. Their love finds its greatest expression in their lucky charm, a heart-shaped foal's bread which hangs from a string in their doorway, reminding them to 'hope on, hope ever.'

Their story is one of impossible beauty and sadness, a chronicle of dreams turned inside out and miracles that never last, framed against a world both tender and unspeakably hard.

Written in luminous prose and with an aching affinity for the landscape the book describes, Foal's Bread is the work of a born writer at the height of her considerable powers.
ISBN:
9781742378824
9781742378824
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
29-03-2012
Publisher:
ALLEN & UNWIN
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
368
Dimensions (mm):
233x157x27mm
Weight:
0.46kg
Gillian Mears

Gillian Mears (1964 - 2016) was loved for her novels and short stories, including the 2012 multi-award-winning novel for adults Foal’s Bread.

She wrote The Cat with the Coloured Tail while camped in the South Australian mallee, in her converted ambo camper, Ant and Bee. The Cat with the Coloured Tail was short-listed for the 2016 ABIA awards.

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