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Title: Wild Lands

Author: Nicole Alexander

Narrator: Ainslie McGlynn

Format: Unabridged

Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-16

Publisher: Wavesound Audio

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Chick Lit

Publisher's Summary:

New South Wales, 1837: Settlers in search of fertile country are venturing far outside the colony. Cutting a swath through the bush with their bare hands, they lay claim to territory beyond government jurisdiction - and the reach of the law.

As she accepts a position on one such farm, 17-year-old Kate Carter is unaware she is entering a land of outlaws, adventurers and murderous natives....

Critic Reviews:

"Alexander writes with a deep love of the land." (Courier Mail)

Members Reviews:

Certainly worth reading!

I am glad that I chose to read this book. I think it has given me a little more insight into the problems of that time. I didn't want to put it down.

Five Stars

Excellent book - kept me interested from the start to the end.

Five Stars

i enjoyed this book so much was sorry when finished would love to read like this

Three Stars

Pleasant Australiana history read .

Thoroughly enjoyable historical fiction set in early days Australia!

Kate Carterâs life had changed since her father had died â ten years old and her only happiness was climbing the tallest tree and talking to his spirit. Her mother was working for the Reverend while Kate was relegated to the servants, doing chores from dawn to dusk. The new colony of New South Wales was a place of danger and hunger â Kate missed her father desperately. Ten years later on the death of her mother, Kate no longer wanted to stay in the Reverendâs employ. A headstrong and feisty young woman, she was determined to make her own way in this desolate country.

Kate's position of ladyâs companion was procured by the Reverend; the advice of the many she spoke to was not to venture beyond the boundaries of the colony. But she had nothing to stay in Sydney town for â her future was in the unknown. Australiaâs wild and unoccupied lands were a dangerous and unpredictable place. Travelling to the other side of the Blue Mountains was fraught with danger.

The Aboriginal people were devastated by the arrival of the white settlers. They didnât understand the native ways; the burning of the land to generate new growth was frowned upon by the whites. But the damage done to the land by the foraging sheep hurt the tribes who had lived on the land for centuries â how could they understand each otherâs culture?

Bronzewing was a white man living in an Aboriginal world. A young boy when heâd been rescued by the elder, Bidjia, he grew up with Jardi, Bidjiaâs son, as his brother. Living with the tribe and learning the Aboriginal ways meant Bronzewing appreciated both sides of the argument; educated by a white family in his youth meant his loyalties were divided on many occasions.

What would happen when Kate, isolated on the Hardyâs farm for the past twelve months and working from sunup to sundown at the most mundane of tasks (certainly not what she had expected), met up with the enigmatic Bronzewing? The volatile situation with the natives attacking and murdering was terrifying â who was this white man living in an Aboriginal world? Was he friend or foe?

I absolutely loved Wild Lands by Aussie author Nicole Alexander. A fabulous portrayal of early life in the 1800s in Australia as it slowly became inhabited by convicts and white settlers alike; the heartbreak of everything the Aboriginal people had ever known being taken away from them by force.