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MarionRosannaAnna
Mar 09, 2015MarionRosannaAnna rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
The author's astonishing achievement puts together an amazing assortment of material and creates a greatly detailed and balanced account of the people, the colony, the institutions and the attitudes of Kelly's days. It is not one-sided, it takes into account all kinds of people's reactions and responses whilst creating a vivid and deep experience for the reader. I could not see the point of Peter Carey's True History of the Kelly Gang - why not just create a character for his book, so annoying and pointless to do this to Ned Kelly's actual life! - but FizSimons' book was an honor for me to read.
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