Holy Day [The Play]
- Andrew Bovell
- Currency Press
- 31/3/2004
- ISBN: 9780868197401
RRP: $23.99 (Inc. GST)
Description
On the white frontier in mid nineteenth century Australia, a lone, bloodied woman arrives at a traveller’s rest in the midst of a violent desert storm with a shocking story to tell. Aborigines have allegedly murdered her husband and stolen her infant child. But an Aboriginal woman has a different story to tell. What would cause a missionary’s wife to lie What chance does the word of an Aboriginal woman have against hers A chilling mystery that draws together the lives of four extraordinary women and their men, all struggling to survive in a hostile and misunderstood landscape.