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The Songmaster

By: Di Morrissey
Narrated by: Kate Hood
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 In Melbourne, a baby girl is found abandoned in the Victorian Art Gallery. She is wrapped in a shawl decorated with a motif that links her to ancient rock paintings in the Kimberley … In Los Angeles, a movie producer’s dying daughter is haunted by nightmares after visiting the Kimberley … And it is to the Kimberley that ex-nun Beth Van Horton brings a disparate group of travellers whose lives will be changed forever. The Kimberley – a land that cradles Australia's ancient treasures – is also home to a people whose powerful secrets could unlock the future for modern mankind.©1997 Lady Byron (P)2002 Bolinda Publishing Contemporary Fiction Genre Fiction

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‘It’s daring, it’s unputdownable … what more can I say about The Songmaster other than I wish I’d written it.’ (Bryce Courtenay)
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Too many characters and story was weak though description of aboriginal culture and belief was interesting and well researched

The knowledge of the Aboriginal culture and beliefs

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Narrated very well. Could not finish book.
As a manager of a West Australian cattle station I am disgusted at how we are portrayed in this book. I live and work with Indigenous people and have always been fascinated with their culture. I have also enjoyed many of this author's other novels.
It doesn't matter if you're white, black, yellow or rainbow. You need to advise someone if you're entering a cattle station. It is for your safety as well as ours and our cattle. Gates get left open so our cattle get cruelly killed on the roads. Rubbish is left lying around (not just by white fellas as the book notes) and our cattle eat it and get sick and die. Not to mention the fact that if different people trespass to go hunting and someone gets shot and killed. Legally that murder is on my back.
Do we need to be better at Indigenous Relations in Australia? Absolutely! But demonising Pastoralists to easily influenced suburbanites is so wrong. Pastoralists have done more for Indigenous Australians at a grass roots level than any other group of people in Australia.

Gross Misrepresentation

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This is the very best of Dis work , a must read for all who want knowledge of our country and our people. Its tge trpe if book you don't want to end. Brilliant

Brilliant

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The narrator could have been good but her “overacting” was terrible! The voice she used for Susan was terrible & became more pathetic as the story went on! For me it almost ruined the book. I would have enjoyed this book more if I’d read it, instead of listening to it.

Great story although a tad predictable. The narrator made it hard to listen to at times.

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In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.