Bettany's Book
Now in paperback, the epic Australian novel that was inspired by a diary Tom Keneally discovered while researching THE GREAT SHAME.
Available Formats
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Bettany's Book Paperback ISBN: 9781864710045 Published: 04/01/2002 Imprint: Doubleday Australia Extent: 608 pages Subject: Contemporary Fiction $24.95 RRP
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Bettany's Book EBook ISBN: 9781742742687 Published: 04/01/2011 Imprint: RHA eBooks Adult Extent: 608 pages Subject: Contemporary Fiction $19.95 RRP Buy Now
Synopsis
When Sydney film producer Dimp Bettany discovers the memoirs of her ancestors, John Bettany and Sarah Bernard, she is convinced she has found the vehicle for her next masterpiece. Filtered through Dimp's correspondence with her sister, Prim, an aid worker in the Sudan, we are drawn into the lives of John Bettany, a man far ahead of his time, as he shares his vivid impressions of a new colony, and his future wife Sarah, a former convict who has been interred in the notorious Female Factory and who has a close friendship with an English murderess.
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