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Goldfields Girl: The Clara Saunders Story

$17.99

By Elaine Forrestal

Now available in a stunning new edition, Elaine Forrestal’s gold rush fever historical novel will capture the imagination of readers with Clara Saunders’ story.

It’s 1892, and 14-year-old Clara Saunders is in search of adventure in the outback. When she strikes up a friendship with cheeky young water carter Jack, it seems to be a promising start. But the goldfields are a harsh place, where water is scarce and disease is common, and it’s a place where many men will never find the fortune they’ve come to seek. With unforeseen tragedies on the horizon, Clara’s time in the dusty town will truly test the limits of her fierceness and determination.

Inspired by a true story, Goldfields Girl will take readers back to a time when rural Australian towns were overrun by eager treasure hunters and being a teenage girl wasn’t all buttons and bows.

ISBN: 9781760994969
Format: Paperback
Pages: 216
Pub Date: 4 February 2025
Publisher: Freemantle Press
Audience: Children and young adults

 

About the author:

Elaine Forrestal is a full-time writer who lives and works in Scarborough, Western Australia. She grew up in the wheatbelt but now travels all over the world, and has spoken at festivals and presented writing workshops in Australia, Singapore, France, Italy, and Ireland. Elaine has had novels, picture books, magazine articles and short stories published in Australia, the US and the UK. Her novel, Someone Like Me, which won the CBCA Book of the Year Award, the WAYRBA Hoffman Award and was commended for the NASAN Book and Software Awards in the UK, has been translated into Slovenian and Italian. She has also written for children’s television. Of her 17 published fiction titles, 14 have been shortlisted for, or won, major awards.