Black Bones, Red Earth

Black Bones, Red Earth by Lee Richie is NOT a book to be missed! It is a masterpiece of vivid and raw emotional storytelling on so many levels that I found it impossible not to become completely intertwined and invested in this story from the first to the last sentence. From a little girl’s recounti......more

Lee Richie did amazing with this book. The story follows Katherine’s life growing up as an orphan and foster child in outback Australia where she has to overcome heartache in search for happiness and love. An absolute must read/listen of a heart-wrenching story. Loved it.......more

When Kathryn is taken from England and away from her brother Archie and sent to hidden Creek in Australia she thinks things can you get worse but they can and they do. The people she stays with Daisy in like one or the nicest people but as she grows into a beautiful young girl Locklin pays her more......more

5⭐️ 🎧 I had the audiobook narrated by Sandy Gore, her distinctive character voices and the feeling that she imparts is excellent, it really added to the story for me. An historical drama set in 1950’s outback Australia. It follows 10yr Katherine who is sent to live in a remote austere outback propert......more

The historical novel "Black Bones and Red Earth" reads like an autobiography. The first part begins when Katherine, at 8 years old, loses both of her parents. Her father abandoned her when a buzz bomb in London murdered her mother. There was an official proposal to move the vast majority of war orph......more