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The Road from Coorain
- By: Jill Ker Conway
- Narrator: Jill Ker Conway
- Length: 9 hours 29 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 13, 2009
- Language: English
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In the 1930s, Jill Ker’s parents bought a sheep farm on the western plains of New South Wales. In 1944, they lost nearly everything when a drought hit. Forced to leave Coorain, 11-year-old Jill and her mother settled in Sydney where Jill... Read more
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