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The Moonshiner

by Lucy Walker

Joan Yelland, beautiful, wealthy, tired of the Sydney social whirl and suffering from an unhappy love affair, flies away from it all to a cattle station in North West Australia. There she finds a new and exciting life. She learns how to swim a swollen river on horseback; to protect a homestead when a cyclone threatens; to sleep beneath the stars. She learns, too, what love truly is when she meets The Moonshiner, a handsome stranger on a black horse, who is pledged to someone else...

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Chappie’s discussion starters

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?