{"product_id":"the-drovers-wife-leah-purcell-9781925005714","title":"The Drover's Wife","description":"\u003cp\u003eTarantino meets Deadwood in this full throttle drama of our colonial past, written by the indomitable Leah Purcell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHenry 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...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA taut thriller of our pioneering past, The Drover's Wife is 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":"Leah Purcell","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":47989112537331,"sku":"8880002899985","price":8.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781925005714.jpg?v=1762196377","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-drovers-wife-leah-purcell-9781925005714","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}