The Bark Cutters
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  • Published: 1 March 2011
  • ISBN: 9781864711622
  • Imprint: Bantam Australia
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 512
  • RRP: $22.99

The Bark Cutters

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1 Mar 2011
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A sweeping rural saga through four generations of the Gordon family, from bestselling author Nicole Alexander, whose novels go right to the 'heart of Australian storytelling'.

A sweeping rural saga through four generations of the Gordon family, from bestselling author Nicole Alexander, whose novels go right to the 'heart of Australian storytelling'.

Sarah Gordon knows what she wants: the family homestead, Wangallon. When it comes to working the homestead she's a natural but, as a woman, it's not her birthright. Even when her beloved older brother is killed in a tragic accident, nobody looks to Sarah to inherit. Instead her grandfather passes management to Anthony Carrington, who was once Wangallon's jackeroo.

Feeling betrayed, Sarah escapes to Sydney to try to put Wangallon behind her. But her heart is pulled in two directions: Sydney with its cafes and social life, her blossoming career as a photographer, and her accountant boyfriend, Jeremy. Or the property that has been in her family for over 120 years, with its floods, its droughts, the ghosts of generations past, and Anthony...

Past and present interweave in a story that traces the Gordon family from the arrival of Scottish immigrant Hamish Gordon in Australia in the 1850s to the life of his great-granddaughter, Sarah.

'Alexander writes [with] a deep love of the land' Courier-Mail
  • Published: 1 March 2011
  • ISBN: 9781864711622
  • Imprint: Bantam Australia
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 512
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Nicole Alexander

Nicole Alexander has a Master of Letters in Creative Writing and her novels, poetry, travel, writing and genealogy articles have been published in Australia, America, Singapore, New Zealand, Germany, Ukraine and Canada.

She is the author of twelve novels: The Bark Cutters, A Changing Land, Absolution Creek, Sunset Ridge, The Great Plains, Wild Lands, River Run, An Uncommon Woman, Stone Country, The Cedar Tree, The Last Station. and The Limestone Road Nicole lives in north-west NSW.

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Praise for The Bark Cutters

A great saga that traces family history with a wealth of romance.

Woman's Day

A life on the land in outback NSW has inspired first time author Nicole Alexander to write about the bush in The Bark Cutters, which captures the lives of four generations of one family..

Sunday Mail Brisbane

Can't wait for The Farmer Wants A Wife? Get stuck into this Aussie saga spanning four generations. Four stars.

NW Magazine

With flasbacks to the 1850's, The Bark Cutters explores the highs and lows of living on a generational family farm.

Australian Country Style Magazine

A pacy read...rollicking family saga.

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