Pastures of the Blue Crane

by H. F. Brinsmead

Illustrated by Annette Macarthur-Onslow

Oxford University Press, 1965, illustrated frontispiece (line drawing), line drawings in text, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, some discolouration, staining and marking to covers (mainly back), no inscriptions, price-clipped dustjacket is protected with removable Mylar cover, minor edge and shelf wear to jacket  (see photographs)

“She was sixteen years old and she was alone.  There was no one to care what became of her, nowhere she could call home.  And then she discovered that she had a relative living – her grandfather Dusty – and that under the terms of her father’s will they were joint owners of a farm in New South Wales.  They made strange travelling companions, Ryl and her grandfather, and when they arrived at their destination their reactions were entirely different.  To Dusty, this was a return to his childhood home – as beautiful as he remembered it; to Ryl, this isolated and primitive farmhouse was a ‘frightful dump’, impossible to live in.  But there was no denying that it was a challenge and that its setting was beautiful.
Although Ryl did not know it, she was on the brink of a wonderful new life: in which she was to unravel a strange mystery connected with their past, to develop as a person, and to become fully alive for the very first time.”