Maggie Mackellar

Maggie McKellar has published two books on the history of settlement in Australia and Canada and two memoirs, When It Rains and How To Get There. Her latest book Graft describes a year on a Merino wool farm on the east coast of Tasmania, and all of life - and death - that surrounds her through the cycle of lambing seasons. 

 

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