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Clancy of the Overflow

The Matilda Saga, Book 9

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Clancy of the Overflow

By: Jackie French
Narrated by: Edwina Wren
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About this listen

From Australia's best-loved storyteller comes the final book in the best-selling Matilda Saga.

This is a love song to our nation, told in a single sweeping story.

Jed Kelly has finally persuaded her great aunt Nancy to tell the story of her grandparents. The tale that unfolds is one of Australia's greatest romances - that of Clancy of the Overflow, who gave up everything for Rose, the woman he adored, and yet still gained all he'd lost and more.

But Nancy's story is not the history that Jed expects. More tales lurk behind the folklore that surrounds Clancy - the stories of the women hidden in Australia's long history, who forged a nation and whose voices need to be heard.

It is also a story of many kinds of love. Clancy's growing passion for the bush, immortalized in Paterson's poem, which speaks to him in the ripple of the river and the song of the stars, and Nancy's need to pass on her deep understanding of her country.

But perhaps the most moving love story of all is the one that never happened, between Matilda O'Halloran and Clancy of the Overflow. And as Jed brings all of these stories to life in her book, Matilda and Clancy will once again waltz beside the river and the forgotten will be given a new voice.

©2019 Jackie French (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers Historical Fiction World Literature Fiction

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This book ties the whole series together. And even more important: Gives us insights into the conditions for aborigine people from the gruesome start of colonialism.
And the narrator is so great!

The ninth book of this great saga, - and even better than the first eight.

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I really enjoyed listening to this. I feel such a love towards the characters and the land, and I'm so sad that I've reached the end of the series.

A beautiful continuation

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i have now listened to all nine books in this series, loved them all, until this last one. it jumps about through times and characters from all 8 books. Pointless recipes between chapters are very distracting, and annoying. I was constantly lost.

complicated

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