The Drover's Wife

Leah Purcell

The Drover's Wife
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Currency Press Pty Ltd
Country
Australia
Published
15 June 2017
Pages
80
ISBN
9781760620974

The Drover’s Wife

Leah Purcell

Tarantino meets Deadwood in this full-throttle drama of our colonial past.

Henry Lawson’s story of the Drover’s Wife pits the stoic silhouette of a woman against the unforgiving Australian landscape, staring down a serpent-it’s our frontier myth captured in a few pages. In Leah’s new play the old story gets a very fresh rewrite.

Once again the Drover’s Wife is confronted by a threat in her yard, but now it’s a man. He’s bleeding, he’s got secrets, and he’s black. She knows there’s a fugitive wanted for killing whites, and the district is thick with troopers, but something’s holding the Drover’s Wife back from turning this fella in…

A taut thriller of our pioneering past, The Drover’s Wife is full of fury, power and has a black sting to the tail, reaching from our nation’s infancy into our complicated present.

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