The cedar tree
Alexander, Nicole L.2022
Large Print
In the spring of 1949, Stella O'Riain flees her home -- a sheep property on the barren edge of the Strzelecki Desert. She leaves behind the graves of her husband Joe and her baby daughter. With no money and limited options, Stella accepts her brother-in-law Harry's offer to live at the O'Riain cane farm in the Richmond Valley. There she hopes to get answers to the questions that plague her about her marriage. However Harry refuses to discuss Joe or the family's secrets, even forbidding her to speak to the owner of the neighbouring property. Nearly a century earlier in County Tipperary, Irish cousins Brandon and Sean O'Riain also fled their homes -- as wanted criminals. By 1867, they are working as cedar-cutters in New South Wales's lush-green Richmond Valley. But while Brandon embraces the opportunities this new country offers, Sean refuses to let go of the past. And one cousin is about to make a dangerous choice that will have devastating consequences down the generations...
Main title:
The cedar tree / Nicole Alexander.
Author:
Alexander, Nicole L., author
Work:
Edition:
[Large print edition]
Imprint:
[Sydney, N.S.W.] : Read How You Want, [2022]©2020.
Collation:
v, 557 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"Freedom comes at a cost..." -- Cover.Regular print edition first published: Bantam, Australia, 2020.Copyright page from the original book.
ISBN:
9780369380371 (paperback)
Dewey class:
A823.4F
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1840576