The title of this book and the text on the cover ‘All you who have not loved her, You will not understand …’ come from the poem ‘My Country’ by Dorothea Mackellar. Reproduced by arrangement with the Licensor, The Dorothea Mackellar Estate, c/- Curtis Brown (Aust) Pty Ltd.
Angus&Robertson
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First published in Australia in 2014
This edition published in 2014
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Copyright © Jackie French and E French 2014
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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:
French, Jackie, author.
To love a sunburnt country / Jackie French.
ISBN: 978 0 7322 9723 7 (pbk)
ISBN: 978 1 7430 9984 1 (epub)
For ages 14+
Australian fiction.
Australia—Social conditions—Juvenile fiction.
A823.3
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Cover images: Girl © Peter Glass / Arcangel Images; all other images by shutterstock.com
Author photograph by Kelly Sturgiss