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The Dickens Boy

De: Tom Keneally
Narrado por: David Tredinnick
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The 10th child of Charles Dickens, Edward Bulwer Lytton Dickens, known as Plorn, had consistently proved unable 'to apply himself ' to school or life. So aged 16, he is sent, as his brother Alfred was before him, to Australia.

Plorn arrives in Melbourne in late 1868 carrying a terrible secret. He has never read a word of his father's work. He is sent out to a 2,000-square-mile station in remotest New South Wales to learn to become a man and a gentleman stockman, from the most diverse and toughest of companions. In the outback he becomes enmeshed with Paakantji, colonists, colonial-born, ex-convicts, ex-soldiers and very few women.

Plorn, unexpectedly, encounters the same veneration of his father and familiarity with Dickens' work in Australia as was rampant in England. Against this backdrop and featuring cricket tournaments, horse-racing, bushrangers, sheep droving, shifty stock and station agents, frontier wars and first encounters with Australian women, Plorn meets extraordinary people and enjoys wonderful adventures as he works to prove himself.

This is Tom Keneally in his most familiar terrain. Taking historical figures and events and reimagining them with verve, compassion and humour. It is a triumph.

©2020 Tom Keneally (P)2020 Penguin Random House Australia

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Interesting

A great possibility in terms of the topic, however the book is laboured given that there is only so much there to mine. Enlightenment values and virtues are proffered which reflect today's sensibilities rather than the realities of the time, making the plot rather far fetched.

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Not one of Toms best

I as looking forward to this but ultimately disappointed. Well performed as usual and interesting story but not the impact one hopes for from Keneally.

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