Discovering Katharine: A Novel

It is the mid-1960s in Perth and Vicki is bored, restless and up for a challenge.

Like many young women of the day, she left school early, lives at home and toils away in a miserable job as a lowly paid typist. She finds solace in the company of her two work friends, Nora and Gwenda, with whom she shares morning tea, biscuits and the latest titbits of gossip.

When Gwenda suggests she read Coonardoo by Katharine Susannah Prichard, life begins to look up for Vicki. The novel bowls Vicki ove...