Rush Oh!

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Pub Date 4 Feb 2016 | Archive Date 5 Apr 2016

Description

****Longlisted for the 2016 Baileys Women's Fiction Prize****

When Mary Davidson, the eldest daughter of a whaling family in Eden, New South Wales, sets out to chronicle the particularly difficult season of 1908, the story she tells is poignant and hilarious, filled with drama and misadventure.

It's a season marked not only by the sparsity of whales and the vagaries of weather, but also by the arrival of John Beck, an itinerant whaleman with a murky past, on whom Mary promptly develops an all-consuming crush. But hers is not the only romance to blossom amidst the blubber . . .

Swinging from Mary's hopes and disappointments, both domestic and romantic, to the challenges that beset their tiny whaling operation, Rush Oh! is a celebration of an extraordinary episode in Australian history when a family of whalers formed a fond, unique allegiance with a pod of frisky killer whales - and in particular, a killer whale named Tom.

****Longlisted for the 2016 Baileys Women's Fiction Prize****

When Mary Davidson, the eldest daughter of a whaling family in Eden, New South Wales, sets out to chronicle the particularly difficult...


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Advance Praise

'Beautiful and brutal, witty and kind, Rush Oh! is a story of great surprises and a beating heart - a book never to forget' - Markus Zusak, author of The Book Thief

'Hugely funny and peopled with a cast of characters I came to love like my own friends, Rush Oh! reminded me why I love reading' - Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites


'Beautiful and brutal, witty and kind, Rush Oh! is a story of great surprises and a beating heart - a book never to forget' - Markus Zusak, author of The Book Thief

'Hugely funny and peopled with a...


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ISBN 9780349006628
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