Out Where the Brolgas Dance

Sara Powter

Sara Powter, 2021 - Fiction - 398 pages

Lockleys of Parramatta Series Book 2

Out Where the Brolgas Dance

Named after an explorer, the last thing Wills want to do is spend his life working for at the blacksmiths forge.

Clean Historical Fiction set in Parramatta, Australian in the early 1840s. Gold is found and so is love.

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Wills Lockley is a convicts third son. Named after an explorer he want to see what is over the mountains and travel to see the brolgas dance. His teacher at school has seen them and he also found traces of gold. Wills has big dreams and won't be told no, so he runs away.

Cathy Turner has loved Wills since she was fourteen. When she hears he has left home to places unknown, she grieves. Will he return and does care her? If he does, are they too young to marry?

Six Englishmen are seeking escape from mental traumas (PTSD) after fighting in a war in India. How does a single question from the eighteen-year-old lad change the lives of them all?

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'Out Where the Brolgas Dance' is the second book in a 100 year family saga of Colonial and convict Australia. Set in the convict era Parramatta.

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If you love Australian Colonial history, you will love Sara Powter's 'Out Where the Brolgas Dance' A clean historical tale love, adventure and enduring friendships.

Buy 'Out Where the Brolgas Dance' to find out about Wills discovery will change the colony and bring wealth beyond his wildest dreams.

(The convict side this saga is loosely inspired by the author's convict family history.)

If you love this book,

Luke's story is found in 'Diamond in the Dirt'

Diamonds, a lost love and the value of family.

About the author

Sara Powter was born on the NSW Central Coast in 1959. Her childhood was spent with her parents travelling mostly up and down the East Coast of Australia, fishing, Shell collecting and doing some of her education by Correspondence Schooling. With a passion for Science she worked for the Department of Agriculture as a Scientific Assistant in the Entomology Department. She married Stephen soon after leaving there and they spent 30 years in Ministry in the Newcastle Anglican Diocese in NSW, only retiring at the end of 2020. When 'Covid 19' hit, 'time' was available to pen some of the stories she'd wanted to write for some time. Within just four months, three stories were finished and a fourth on the way. These stem from her passion of Colonial Australia, her convict Ancestors and the amazing history of the Amazing country, Australia! Sara did thess as she wishe dto finishe one of her mothers unfinished manuscripts. "Dancing to her own tune" is now completed and ties in Sheila Hunters Australian Trilogy with Saras Lockley series. There is a second prequel to these that shes nearing completion. "Amelias Tears". Watch for more...Cover Paintings are all by Joseph Lycett. An Early Colonial artist. They are all in public domain usage and held in various libraries throughout Australia

Bibliographic information

• Title: Out Where the Brolgas Dance; Volume 2 of The Lockleys of Parramatta
• Author: Sara Powter
• Edition: 2
• Publisher: Sara Powter, 2021
• ISBN: 0994578245, 9780994578242
• Length: 398 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Christian / Historical; Fiction / Historical / General; Fiction / Religious