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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A cliche,
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This review is from: The Last Mile Home
Readers of romantic fiction will love this one. In 1953, in a small Australian country town, the son of the wealthiest local grazier falls in love with the daughter of a shearer...way,way down the social scale, even in this supposedly classless society. To make things worse, her family is Irish and Catholic and comparatively uneducated, compared to the private boarding school education of the "squire's" son. The girl becomes pregnant; the boy renounces his inheritance after his father refuses to recognise any marriage, and marries her, even though it's after the birth of their baby son. The couple and their baby leave to start a new life up north, but are killed when their car is hit by a train. The baby's harsh, stubborn old grandfather gets a court order, giving him the right to raise the little boy, who lives in permanent fear of upsetting his grandfather. A miracle, in the form of a passing wise old man, reforms the grandfather and everything ends happily. To be fair, this is an early Di Morrissey novel and her later efforts are far more mature. I feel that this is a book which would be appreciated by gentler readers than I.
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The Last Mile Home (Unknown Binding - 2004)
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