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Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 Captain Starlight's Apprentice
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'The story of two women living very different, heroic lives in two very different Australias.

'Jess, circus-raised, is a stunt-rider who can outride any man. In the early days of film she finds her calling, playing wild outlaw women who answer to no one. However, when her Chinese circus-owner husband is killed she is left pregnant and vulnerable and, after suffering the cruellest betrayal of all, she finds herself closer to the outlaw's life than she had ever imagined.

'Rose goes to Australia from England in the 1950s, in search of a new life. But neither the new country nor motherhood is what she had expected and, very quickly, she finds herself estranged from those she loves, incarcerated and terrified. Yet Rose is strong, and she will manage not only to save herself, but also to shed new light on Jess's story in a moving and deeply satisfying way.' (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Dedication: For my mother, who made it home. And, as always, for Richard.
  • Epigraph: If we could embrace, even in the house of the dead, we might gladden each other in our icy grief. Homer, The Odyssey.
  • Epigraph: The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks:
    The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep
    Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends,
    'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.- Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Headline Review ,
      2006 .
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      Extent: 248p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: June 2006
      ISBN: 075533115X (pbk.), 0755302176
    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: The House of Books , 2012 .
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      Extent: 256p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: 1st December 2012
      ISBN: 9781743313978, 1743313977
    • Camberwell, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Tablo Publishing , 2022 .
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      Extent: 1vp.
      Note/s:
      • Published 1st April 2022
      ISBN: 9781685831714

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Works about this Work

Outlaw Odyssey Shirley J. Paolini , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 21 no. 1 2007; (p. 89-90)

— Review of Captain Starlight's Apprentice Kathryn Heyman , 2006 single work novel
Australian Literature Larissa Behrendt , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: National Indigenous Times , 27 July vol. 5 no. 110 2006; (p. 28)

— Review of Captain Starlight's Apprentice Kathryn Heyman , 2006 single work novel
Books Fiction Mark Hinchcliffe , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 24 - 25 June 2006; (p. 28)

— Review of Captain Starlight's Apprentice Kathryn Heyman , 2006 single work novel
[Review] Captain Starlight's Apprentice Judith White , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 30 May vol. 124 no. 6522 2006; (p. 69)

— Review of Captain Starlight's Apprentice Kathryn Heyman , 2006 single work novel
World's Turned Upside Down Samantha Selinger-Morris , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 1-2 July 2006; (p. 34)

— Review of Captain Starlight's Apprentice Kathryn Heyman , 2006 single work novel
Take Three Veronica Sen , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 25 June 2006; (p. 14)

— Review of Captain Starlight's Apprentice Kathryn Heyman , 2006 single work novel
World's Turned Upside Down Samantha Selinger-Morris , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 1-2 July 2006; (p. 34)

— Review of Captain Starlight's Apprentice Kathryn Heyman , 2006 single work novel
[Review] Captain Starlight's Apprentice Judith White , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 30 May vol. 124 no. 6522 2006; (p. 69)

— Review of Captain Starlight's Apprentice Kathryn Heyman , 2006 single work novel
Books Fiction Mark Hinchcliffe , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 24 - 25 June 2006; (p. 28)

— Review of Captain Starlight's Apprentice Kathryn Heyman , 2006 single work novel
Australian Literature Larissa Behrendt , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: National Indigenous Times , 27 July vol. 5 no. 110 2006; (p. 28)

— Review of Captain Starlight's Apprentice Kathryn Heyman , 2006 single work novel
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