Stars in the Southern Sky
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Stars in the Southern Sky is a novel written by Australian authoress Elizabeth Haran
Elizabeth Haran
Elizabeth Haran was born in 1954 in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and migrated to Australia as a child. She has written twelve novels set in Australia and is currently working on the thirteenth. In the Valley of the Flaming Sun, published in 2007, spent eleven weeks on the German magazine "Der Spiegel" best...

and published in 2004 by Bastei Lübbe Verlag.

Synopsis

Estella Lawson’s shallow husband wants a divorce to marry her rich cousin. She escapes to the most isolated outback town in Australia to take over her late father’s veterinary practice. Keeping her identity and pregnancy a secret, she tries to prove herself to the mistrustful locals, who have secrets of their own. Two men vie for her heart, but her troubles worsen when her husband comes to claim the baby so that her barren cousin can inherit a fortune.

Background information

This book is set in Birdsville, one of the most isolated towns in Australia. Elizabeth changed the name of the town to Kangaroo Crossing for the book.

Foreign language editions

Foreign language editions of the book have been published in German, Czechoslovakian and Russian.

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