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Ruby Moonlight

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Summary

Ruby Moonlight is a novel of the impact of colonisation in mid north South Australia around 1880.

The main character, Aboriginal woman Ruby, refugee of a massacre, shelters in the woods where she befriends an Irishman trapper. The poems convey how fear of discovery is overcome by the need for human contact, which, in a tense unravelling of events, is forcibly challenged by an Aboriginal law man.

The natural world is richly observed and Ruby's courtship is measured by the turning of the seasons.

Winner of the 2012 Deadly Award for Outstanding Achievement in Literature.

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Korff, J 2018, Ruby Moonlight, <https://www.creativespirits.info/resources/books/ruby-moonlight>, retrieved 6 November 2024

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