Daisy Bates in the Desert

byJulia Blackburn

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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.
She has extended the boundaries of biography with an exhilarating exercise in imaginative power and a brilliant piece of writing
Anne Chisholm, Observer

About 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.
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  • Imprint: Vintage
  • ISBN: 9780099752219
  • Length: 240 pages
  • Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm
  • Weight: 171g
  • Price: £15.99
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