Harland's Half Acre (Vintage International)

Born on a poor dairy farm in Queensland Frank Harland’s life is centered on his great artistic gift his passionate love for his father and four brothers and his need to repossess through a patch of land his family’s past. The story spans Frank’s life; from before the First World War through years as a swaggie in the Great Depression and Brisbane in the forties to his retirement to a patch of Australian scrub where he at last takes possession of his dream.   Harland’s Half Acre tells how a man sets out to recover the land his ancestors discovered and then lost and how in fulfilment this vision becomes a new reality.