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Out Where the Brolgas Dance

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Book 2, in the Lockley’s of Parramatta series. It’s the 1840s and discoveries across the Blue Mountains continue. Major Mitchells new road is complete, towns are planned and being built. Abundant land is available for those who want it. A former student of Rev WB Clarke, the father of Australian Geology, William “Wills” Lockley, 18, has laid a solid foundation for a career as a Blacksmith, but the Lockley lust for adventure flows deeply within his veins. He dreads the monotony of work at the Blacksmiths Forge and yearns for adventure in a new frontier. Wills meets six Englishmen who have the means to make his dreams come true. What they discover changes the Colony and their lives forever. Gold fever ensues. After he heads west, Wills has to deal with an uncertain romance.
 

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

The series follows a convict and his family through his life in Parramatta.  Book 2 focuses attention on his third son, Wills, and Rev William clarks discovery of gold in NSW. It takes the develeopment of NSW through to Hargraves an official registrations of his controvertial gold finds

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