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y separately published work icon The Last Mile Home single work   novel  
Issue Details: First known date: 1994... 1994 The Last Mile Home
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It is 1953 in a small country town in Australia, a time of postwar prosperity and hope. The Holtens are wealthy austere graziers who lived on the land for generations. The McBrides are a large and loving shearer's family who are new arrivals to the district. When the McBrides' eldest daughter falls in love with the Holtens' only son and heir, the barriers to their love seem overwhelming. But in the end, their love triumphs even over tragedy ... and hope and joy are their enduring legacy - back cover.

Notes

  • Dedication: Dedicated to families everywhere ... who are linked by those members present, those past who are still with us across the circle of time, and those yet to come ... in the hope that respect and affection for our own family might forge us all into one international family. And for Poppy who always said, 'The last mile home is always the longest ... but isn't it good to get there!'

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Alternative title: Spate Heimkehr
Language: German
    • c
      Germany,
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Bastei Lübbe ,
      2004 .
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      Extent: 300p.
      ISBN: 3404152484

Other Formats

  • Also sound recording.
  • Also large print.
  • Also braille.

Works about this Work

Love in the Country Adele Moy , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 28 January 1995; (p. wkd 6)

— Review of The Last Mile Home Di Morrissey , 1994 single work novel
Course of True Love that Doesn't Run at All Kathy Hunt , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14-15 January 1995; (p. rev 5)

— Review of Tit for Tat Terry Lane , 1994 single work novel ; The Last Mile Home Di Morrissey , 1994 single work novel ; Blockbuster Jade Forrester , 1994 single work novel
Untitled Joanne Jolly , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: New Librarian , November vol. 1 no. 9 1994; (p. 37)

— Review of The Last Mile Home Di Morrissey , 1994 single work novel
Forecasts Jane Freeman , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , October vol. 74 no. 1052 1994; (p. 40,42)

— Review of The Last Mile Home Di Morrissey , 1994 single work novel
Course of True Love that Doesn't Run at All Kathy Hunt , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14-15 January 1995; (p. rev 5)

— Review of Tit for Tat Terry Lane , 1994 single work novel ; The Last Mile Home Di Morrissey , 1994 single work novel ; Blockbuster Jade Forrester , 1994 single work novel
Forecasts Jane Freeman , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , October vol. 74 no. 1052 1994; (p. 40,42)

— Review of The Last Mile Home Di Morrissey , 1994 single work novel
Untitled Joanne Jolly , 1994 single work review
— Appears in: New Librarian , November vol. 1 no. 9 1994; (p. 37)

— Review of The Last Mile Home Di Morrissey , 1994 single work novel
Love in the Country Adele Moy , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 28 January 1995; (p. wkd 6)

— Review of The Last Mile Home Di Morrissey , 1994 single work novel
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