Living like a Kelly : A Novel
North Melbourne
:
Australian Scholarly Publishing
,
2015
9046221
2015
single work
novel
historical fiction
'Greta, Victoria, 1911.
A thunder-storm forces journalist Brian Cookson to seek shelter at a roadside cottage; he is taken in by three little girls and the old woman they call Gran. Cookson starts to explain that he has to write a story about Dan Kelly and Steve Hart of the Kelly Gang being alive and well in South Africa. The old woman spins round and glares.
' "Lies, lies, lies!"
'Cookson is dumbfounded.
"But how can you know?"
"I am his mother."
'Will she ever trust a newspaper man with the truth about living like a Kelly?' (Publication summary)
