{"product_id":"the-drovers-wife-9781760620974","title":"The Drover's Wife","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Leah Purcell\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Currency Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Currency Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Australian \u0026amp; Oceanian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTarantino meets Deadwood in this full-throttle drama of our colonial past, written by the indomitable Leah Purcell. Henry Lawson's story of the Drover's Wife pits the stoic silhouette of a woman against the unforgiving Australian landscape, staring down a serpent'it's our frontier myth captured in a few pages. In Leah's new play the old story gets a very fresh rewrite. Once again the Drover's Wife is confronted by a threat in her yard in Australia's high country, but now it's a man. He's bleeding, he's got secrets, and he's black. She knows there's a fugitive wanted for killing whites, and the district is thick with troopers, but something's holding the Drover's Wife back from turning this fella in. A taut thriller of our pioneering past, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Drover's Wife \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eis full of fury, power and has a black sting to the tail, reaching from our nation's infancy into our complicated present.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46474977640599,"sku":"9781760620974","price":1451.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781760620974.jpg?v=1766271624","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-drovers-wife-9781760620974","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}