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Australian author known for her novel The Drover's Wife and its adaptations.

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The Bookshelf
Leah Purcell's novel The Drover's Wife and crime with Garry Disher, Emma Viskic and Jessica Chapnik Kahn

Leah Purcell's The Drover's Wife, The Legend of Molly Johnson is published by Hamish Hamilton.

The Bookshelf
Leah Purcell's novel The Drover's Wife and crime with Garry Disher, Emma Viskic and Jessica Chapnik Kahn

This actually happened to Leah Purcell's great-grandfather.

The Bookshelf
Leah Purcell's novel The Drover's Wife and crime with Garry Disher, Emma Viskic and Jessica Chapnik Kahn

So then when Leah Purcell takes it and in the play version plays that woman as an Aboriginal Australian woman,

The Bookshelf
Leah Purcell's novel The Drover's Wife and crime with Garry Disher, Emma Viskic and Jessica Chapnik Kahn

And then so Leah has this stage play that...

The Bookshelf
Leah Purcell's novel The Drover's Wife and crime with Garry Disher, Emma Viskic and Jessica Chapnik Kahn

Those details are all there in Leah Purcell's novel.

The Bookshelf
Leah Purcell's novel The Drover's Wife and crime with Garry Disher, Emma Viskic and Jessica Chapnik Kahn

Gosh, I can't help thinking that Henry Lawson would have loved Leah Purcell.

The Bookshelf
Leah Purcell's novel The Drover's Wife and crime with Garry Disher, Emma Viskic and Jessica Chapnik Kahn

But yes, I mean, we're not alone in loving that play, Kate, because in 2017, Leah Purcell won Book of the Year at the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards for her stage play of The Drover's Wife.