Cry of the Curlew - Softcover

Watt, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 055214794X ISBN 13: 9780552147941

Publisher: Corgi Books, 2000

Synopsis

The story of two feuding families - the Mackintoshes, wealthy Scottish landowners, and the Duffys, poor Irish labourers, and their attempts to tame the wilds of Northern Australia.

About this title

From the Author:

The Sequels Shadow of the Osprey and Flight of the Eagle
I was warmed by the wonderful comments from my readers in the UK on your site. The second and third books in the trilogy have been completed and the sequel will be released in the UK by my publishers next year. The sequel takes the reader onto the bloody frontier of the Palmer River goldfields in the years 1874 with the characters established in the first novel. It also takes the reader with the Native Mounted Police and their war against the fierce Kalkadoon warriors of central Queensland. My third book, Flight of the Eagle concludes the trilogy in the years 1884 - 86 and follows the conclusion of the curse to its end. The novel is set against the campaign in the Sudan with the British army and a return to Ireland by one of the characters who the reader has met as a baby in the first book. And for the information for the reviewer from Cardiff... the fate of the evil Captain Mort is not nice. Thank you for your kind words for a first time author. I hope to be in the UK next year on tour. Peter Watt

From the Back Cover:

Life was harsh and cheap in the frontierlands of northern Australia. When prosperous landowner Donald Macintosh orders the brutal dispersal of the aboriginal Nerambura tribe from his property in 1862, he little realises the terrible consequences of what he regards as a routine land clearance.

Witnesses to the brutal slaughter, poverty-stricken cattle-drivers Patrick Duffy and his son, Tom, are unwillingly dragged into its aftermath, and a chain of events is set in motion from which neither family will escape intact.

Meanwhile, in thriving Sydney Town, Michael Duffy and Fiona Macintosh are completely unaware of the cataclysmic events overtaking their fathers in the colony of Queensland. When their paths cross on a day's outing from the city, the spark of instant attraction is ignited. But a storm during the ferry trip home is but a small portent of what is to follow...

Spanning the middle years of the nineteenth century, Cry of the Curlew is the compelling epic of the all-consuming cycle of love, death, violence and revenge which overtake the two feuding families as they attempt to tame the wilds of Northern Australia. It establishes Peter Watt as an exceptional new storytelling talent.

About this edition

• Publisher: Corgi Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 055214794X
• ISBN 13: 9780552147941
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 704