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Isabel Tuck Isabel Tuck i(A71898 works by)
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1 y separately published work icon Hope Junction : Inspiration from the Australian Outback Isabel Tuck , Stepney : Axiom , 2013 6859538 2013 selected work short story

'Hope Junction is the essence of Outback Australia, a town rich in spirit but facing economic problems and declining population. The over-the-top characters are immediately recognisable and could be found in any country town as they struggle to implement their grand plans.

The book, loaded with humanity, tells of upright citizens brimming with pride, yet tempered by scandal and theft.

Isabel Tuck wrote the story as stress relief for her husband at the time of his retirement from academic life.

While Hope Junction is a light read, it thoughtfully deals with a major social problem facing country communities.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 y separately published work icon My Happy Book Isabel Tuck , Bowral : Adam's Garden , 2007 Z1502453 2007 single work children's fiction children's
1 1 y separately published work icon Solarium Fairies Isabel Tuck , Jenny Hull (illustrator), Wagga Wagga : Adam's Garden , 2003 Z1122166 2003 single work picture book children's
1 1 y separately published work icon Adam's Garden Isabel Tuck , Jenny Hull (illustrator), Wagga Wagga : Bobby Graham Publishers , 2000 Z1002238 2000 single work picture book children's 'Set on the banks of the Wingecarribee River, Adam's Garden is about a child's everyday play. Here Adam is master, interacting with his animal friends - Gordon the goanna, Kevin Wombat and Blimp, the blue-tongued lizard - and even sometimes blitzing the pirate, Captain Custard. As well as about play, Adam's Garden is also about purpose. The book successfully reaches into a hospital bed, lightening the load of a sick child and anxious parents. Adam's Garden shows us the magic of imagination by transporting us to any place we choose.'-- Back cover.
1 1 y separately published work icon Hope Junction : (Please Slow Down) Isabel Tuck , Wagga Wagga : Bridge Books , 1997 Z187522 1997 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon Letters To My Father Isabel Tuck , Sydney : Isabel Tuck , 1994 Z1502446 1994 single work novel 'These letters cameo life on a north coast dairy farm during the depression years of the early thirties. Sandy, a cattleman committed to the land, his God and family, builds a homestead and seeks to set up a dairy operation on two hundred acres amongst the coastal ridges. During the winter months when the herd dried off he sought off-farm income returning to cattle buying and horse breaking. Cattle are mustered in the morning mists and there is description of the historic pig drive down the Dorrigo Mountain pass. These stories written as letters to my father who is in nursing care, move close to nature reflecting humour as well as anguish as he toiled in "God's World".' (Back cover)
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