Taking the advice of her hero, Harry Crawford, she runs away. ‘Go and play with your sisters,’ Papà says, but wearing dresses and sipping tea is not the life for Tally Ho. Papà takes her fishing, Nonno teaches her how to jump fences on his horse Geronimo-life gallops on the way it should, until a brother, baby William, is born. Wellington is her town and she makes up the rules. Tally Ho doesn’t need to go to school because she is going to be a fisherman or a cart driver or a butcher boy like Harry Crawford. Memories come back to her-a murder trial, a life in prison-but with each prick of the needle her memories begin to shift. She has £100 in her pocket, but no identification. Doctors talk across her body, nurses jab her in the arm with morphine, detectives arrive to take her fingerprints. After being hit by a car on Oxford Street, sixty-three-year-old Jean Ford lies in a coma in Sydney Hospital. A stunningly original debut novel inspired by the life of Eugenia Falleni.
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