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Daisy Bates in the Desert

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099752219

  • Length: 240  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 171g

  • RRP: £12.99

Daisy Bates in the Desert

In 1913, when she was 54 years old, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia. And there she stayed, with occasional interruptions, for almost 30 years.

In Daisy Bates in the Desert Julia Blackburn explores the ancient and desolate landscape where Ms Bates says she was most happy. She fuses her own imagination and experience with that of Daisy Bates, unitl she seems to be recalling this other life as it it were her own.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9780099752219

  • Length: 240  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 171g

  • RRP: £12.99

Reviews

  • She has extended the boundaries of biography with an exhilarating exercise in imaginative power and a brilliant piece of writing

    Anne Chisholm, Observer

  • The book is full of vivid, astonishing images

    Lucy Hughes-Hallett, The Times

  • Brilliant... enchanting

    Jan Morris, Independent

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About the Author

Julia Blackburn

Julia Blackburn has written ten books of non-fiction, the most recent of which, Time Song, was shortlisted for the 2019 Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize. Her family memoir The Three of Us won the 2009 J.R. Ackerley Award, and her two novels, The Book of Colour and The Leper’s Companions, were both shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She lives in Suffolk and Italy.

Julia Blackburn

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