{"id":6883,"date":"2018-10-09T18:41:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T08:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/?p=6883"},"modified":"2019-01-06T19:46:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T09:46:48","slug":"lady-bird-and-the-fox-kim-kelly-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblurb.com.au\/wp\/lady-bird-and-the-fox-kim-kelly-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Bird and the Fox (Kim Kelly) – book review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lady Bird and the Fox<\/em> by Kim Kelly is one of the best historical fiction titles I\u2019ve read in a long time, a claim boosted by the familiarity I felt with the setting (not far from where I grew up).<\/p>\n

\"\"This is the blurb:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s 1868 and the gold rush is spreading across the wild west of New South Wales, bringing with it a new breed of colonial rogue \u2013 bushrangers. A world far removed from hardworking farm girl, Annie Bird, and her sleepy village on the outskirts of Sydney.<\/p>\n

But when a cruel stroke of fortune sees Annie orphaned and outcast, she is forced to head for the goldfields in search of her grandfather, a legendary tracker. Determined and dangerously naive, she sets off with little but a swag full of hope \u2013 and is promptly robbed of it on the road.<\/p>\n

Her cries for help attract another sort of rogue: Jem Fox, the waster son of a wealthy silversmith, who\u2019s already in trouble with the law \u2013 up to his neatly trimmed eyebrows in gambling debts. And now he does something much worse. He \u2018borrows\u2019 a horse and rides after the thieves, throwing Annie over the saddle as he goes.<\/p>\n

What follows is a breakneck gallop through the Australian bush, a tale of mistaken identity and blind bigotry, of two headstrong opposites tossed together by fate, their lives entwined by a quest to get back home \u2013 and the irresistible forces of love.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It\u2019s rich in description, passionate in the telling, and immersive as a reading experience. Annie and Jem are terrific characters with a sassy spark that had me willing them to get their acts together as the story moved on. I laughed, I wiped away a tear or two, but most of all, Kelly got me thinking about the backstory of Australia\u2019s settlement and advance westward from Sydney, the story we weren\u2019t told in school.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t wait to read more titles by this talented author \u2013 do yourself a favour and look her up.<\/p>\n

Monique Mulligan
\n<\/b>For more of Monique Mulligan’s writing on books, check out Write Note Reviews<\/b><\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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