An Outback Marriage

Banjo Paterson’s first novel carries the reader deep into the cattle country of New South Wales and Queensland, where fortunes ride on rainfall, a good horse, and the truth of an old marriage. When a question arises over the legitimacy of a long-dead union, the answer will decide who inherits a great pastoral estate, and the search for proof sends station hands and city lawyers alike across hard, dusty country. Paterson, famous for his bush ballads, fills the pages with drovers, squatters, and Aboriginal stockmen, along with the dry humor and love of the land that ran through his verse. A quiet romance threads its way through the legal tangle. Free to read as a PDF or EPUB edition.