The Publican's Daughter

<p><span style=color: rgba(9 10 10 1)>It is 1962 and at 19</span><strong style=color: rgba(9 10 10 1)> </strong><span style=color: rgba(9 10 10 1)>Katherine Forster wants to find a husband. She </span>decides to join her publican parents when they buy the only hotel in an <strong>outback </strong>railway town where rumour has it men outnumber women ten to one. But nothing is as she hopes.</p><p> </p><p>Katherine fears for her sanity as she is drawn into a vortex of <strong>family dysfunction</strong> hard men garrulous older women <strong>frontier violence</strong> and <strong>rape</strong>. Aboriginal friends provide succour but when tragedy strikes she must choose a way forward.</p><p> </p><p><em>The Publican's Daughter</em> is a poignant tale of a young girl's brutal awakening through dashed expectations betrayal and loss at a time when sexism and racism flourished. With compassion and clarity this debut novel offers a unique insight into the <strong>Australian outback</strong> seen through the eyes of a naïve city girl.</p>