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Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 Spinifex Baby
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'Spinifex Baby is a beautifully written and evocative hymn to the Australian landscape and to the strength that lies within us all.

'I thought I knew how hard it would be. What I didn’t know was that it would test me to the inner core. This desert with its rolling dune fields is an unforgiving land that relentlessly destroys even its own ancient beauty. It is a place where, compared to the age of the landscape, a single life means less than a grain of sand. I could not have known that the biggest challenge I would face would not be from the piercing sun, not from the unforgiving dust, not even from the aching loneliness of isolation, but from the treachery of my own self.

'When Karen and her partner Al set forth from the cold mountains of Tasmania to the 45-plus degree heat of central Australia to transform a cattle station into a conservation reserve, they were ready to embrace the beauty of the land and throw themselves into the task of protecting native plants and animals. They thought they had all the skills necessary to beat the heat, the dust and their isolation from society. However, when Karen became unexpectedly pregnant, their lives were turned upside down. Suddenly their biggest danger was not their exposure to the harsh elements but to the deepest fears that resided within themselves…' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Dedication:

    Dedicated to

    Mauritz (Mo) Pieterse (1987-2012)

    Your courage and kindness will remain in our hearts

    and

    Al Dermer, who walks beside me.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Warriewood, Northern Beaches area, Sydney Northeastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Finch , 2014 .
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      Extent: 261, 8 unnumbered pages of platesp.
      Description: illus., ports
      Note/s:
      • Published 22 May 2014
      ISBN: 9781925048155

Works about this Work

Desert Dream Marred by Sickness and Depression Sarah Thomas , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 8 June 2014; (p. 16)

— Review of Spinifex Baby Karen Harrland , 2014 single work autobiography
Desert Dream Marred by Sickness and Depression Sarah Thomas , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 8 June 2014; (p. 16)

— Review of Spinifex Baby Karen Harrland , 2014 single work autobiography
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