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'In Melbourne, a baby girl is found abandoned in the Victorian Art Gallery. She is wrapped in a shawl decorated with a motif that links her to ancient rock paintings in the Kimberley...In Los Angeles, a movie producer's dying daughter is haunted by nightmares after visiting the Kimberley...And it is to the Kimberley that ex-nun Beth Van Horton brings a disparate group of travellers whose lives will be changed forever.'
'The Kimberley - a land that cradles Australia's ancient treasures - is also home to a people whose powerful secrets could unlock the future for modern mankind.' (Source: Publishers website)
Notes
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Author's note: The Songmaster is a work of fiction. While it is inspired by certain events, places and people, it remains a fictitious work, drawn from my imagination. This book is written in the hope it may forge closer links between indigenous and other Australians.
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Editor's note: Di Morrissey travelled to the Kimberley in 1996 to research The Songmaster and is indebted to the Ngarinyin people and their advisers for their assistance.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Braille.
- Sound recording.
- Large print.
Works about this Work
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One More Step in a Novelist's Spiritual Journey
1998
single work
biography
— Appears in: The Canberra Times Sunday Times , 15 February 1998; (p. 22) -
The Dreaming Heart
1997
single work
biography
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 16 November 1997; (p. 11)
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One More Step in a Novelist's Spiritual Journey
1998
single work
biography
— Appears in: The Canberra Times Sunday Times , 15 February 1998; (p. 22) -
The Dreaming Heart
1997
single work
biography
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 16 November 1997; (p. 11)
- Kimberley area, North Western Australia, Western Australia,
- Sydney, New South Wales,
- 1990s