Angus&Robertson
An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, Australia
First published in Australia in 2016
This edition published in Australia in 2017
by HarperCollinsPublishers Australia Pty Limited
ABN 36 009 913 517
Copyright © Jackie French 2016
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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:
French, Jackie, author.
If blood should stain the wattle / Jackie French.
ISBN: 978 1 4607 5128 2 (paperback)
ISBN: 978 1 4607 0593 3 (ebook)
For young adults.
Nationalism—Australia—Juvenile fiction.
Nineteen seventies—Juvenile fiction.
Historical fiction.
Romance fiction.
Young adult fiction.
Australia—Social conditions—Juvenile fiction.
Australia—Politics and government—1972–1975—Juvenile fiction.
Cover design by Hazel Lam, HarperCollins Design Studio
Cover images: Girl by Ebru Sidar / Trevillion Images; Newspaper headline by News Ltd / Newspix; Scrivener Dam and Lake Burley Griffin image from a Nu-color-vue postcard; Wattle by shutterstock.com
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