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Cherry Cordner Cherry Cordner i(A856 works by) (a.k.a. Cherry Mavis Cordner)
Gender: Female
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1 y separately published work icon The Falling of the Year Cherry Cordner , Haymarket : Little Red Apple Publishing , 2009 Z1804536 2009 single work novel historical fiction 'A boy is growing up happily with his young widowed mother and younger brother in 1870s Mt Gambier, a town of solid types and few secrets; or so it may have seemed. But beneath its respectable colonial facade lay hazards and mysteries every bit as dangerous as the beautiful yet deceptive Blue Lake. In 1875 scarlet fever struck the community, as did a murder so savage it tilted the small world perilously on it axis. For the boy and his friends it is a time of questions, disillusion and unwelcome reality. The author has based her story on an actual murder of the time and place, and uses contemporary documents, including the still extant Border Mail newspaper, to effectively colour the landscape of her fiction and flesh out its drama and characters.' (Publisher's abstract)
1 The Lone Hand Cherry Cordner , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Author , Spring vol. 24 no. 3 1992; (p. 28-30)
1 y separately published work icon A Mavis Singing : The Story of an Australian Family Cherry Cordner , Kensington : University of New South Wales Press , 1986 Z1180915 1986 single work biography Family history of the Wauchope family, who arrived in Adelaide from Scotland in 1839. The family later settled in Wauchope, NSW. The narrative of five generations concludes at the end of World War II.
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