By Aaron Cordy
ECHUCA 1894, admits the turmoil of a shearer’s strike and rising floodwaters, Tess tries to flee the turmoil of her marriage when she is forced onto the wrong riverboat and right into her violent husband’s path, in the latest book by Darry Fraser, The Night on the Darling River.
Beloved bestselling Australian author, Darry Fraser is returning to the Shepparton Library on Friday, January 31, to share her latest book, her insights into writing and her passion for the Murray River. The mighty Murray plays a big part in Darry’s writing, having grown up in Swan Hill, she has drawn inspiration from it in many of her novels.
In The Night on the Darling River, while Tess Hawthorn tries to break free of her violent husband, matters get complicated by Bram Kempster, also heading up-river is on urgent family business. As both tensions and the river levels get higher, can Tess and Bram put aside their differences, work together and somehow survive?
If you would like to join Darry at the Shepparton Library on Friday, January 31, at 2.30pm contact Shepparton Library on 1300 374 765 or email shepparton@gvlibraries.com.au. Copies of the book will be available to buy at the event, which Darry will be happy to sign.
