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'At 21, Queenie Hanlon has the world at her feet and the love of handsome bushman TR Hamilton. Beautiful, wealthy and intelligent, she is the only daughter of Tingulla Station, the famed outback property in the wilds of western Queensland. At 22, her life lies in ruins. A series of disasters has robbed her of everything she ever loved. Everything except Tingulla - her ancestral home and her spirit's Dreaming place...And now she is about to lose that too...An extraordinary story of thwarted love and heroic struggle, Heart of the Dreaming is the tale of one woman's courage and her determination to take on the world and win.'
Source: Read How You Want.
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Dedication: For the Revitt girls - My lovely mother Grace (Kay), grandmother Grace Louise, Bette (Annette), Rosemary and Vivian.
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Author's note: In Aboriginal lore the place where you are born is where your spirit lives - a sacred Dreaming place. It is a place of belonging, of being one with the land. A place where knowledge, peace and joy are found. It is not a place recognised by white man's law, or marked by maps; but Dreaming sites blanket the face of Aboriginal Australia, exerting a pull on the spirit and soul always to return to the heart of one's Dreaming.
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Prequel to Follow the Morning Star
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- Sound recording.
- Large print.
- Braille.
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Australian Story
2010
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— Appears in: The West Australian , 23 January 2010; (p. 19) -
Facing North
2005
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biography
— Appears in: The Age , 16 April 2005; (p. 1, 4-5) Di Morrissey travelled through the 'real' Queensland, to gain local knowledge and inspiration for her novel Heart of Dreaming. -
Book Research Gave Author Di Her Bush Spurs
1991
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criticism
biography
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 2 November 1991; (p. 5) -
Di Finds New World in Written Word
1990
single work
column
— Appears in: The Saturday Mercury , 18 August 1990; (p. 23)
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Facing North
2005
single work
biography
— Appears in: The Age , 16 April 2005; (p. 1, 4-5) Di Morrissey travelled through the 'real' Queensland, to gain local knowledge and inspiration for her novel Heart of Dreaming. -
Australian Story
2010
single work
column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 23 January 2010; (p. 19) -
Di Finds New World in Written Word
1990
single work
column
— Appears in: The Saturday Mercury , 18 August 1990; (p. 23) -
Book Research Gave Author Di Her Bush Spurs
1991
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 2 November 1991; (p. 5)
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