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While resisting eviction from the Queensland family property at the start of the Great Depression, Emma McKenna's father is shot dead. Emma is left destitute, with her crippled mother and twelve-year-old twin brothers to care for. But she is not easily defeated and fights back. In her struggle to survive she must overcome, heartless wealthy relatives, racial bigotry, child abuse, corrupt financiers and choose between the love of two very different men: one a wealthy Sydney lawyer involved with the New Guard, a paramilitary anti-communist movement, and the other, a persecuted and penniless left-wing activist. The Light Horseman's Daughter offers a panoramic view of Australia in the 1930's--the big landowners of the outback, the corrupt bankers who supported them, the well-heeled elite of Sydney's affluent eastern suburbs, the abject poverty of the victims of the Depression, the idealists who joined the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War . This award-winning novel weaves all this into a riveting story with the human element at its heart. Emma McKenna is a heroine to remember. ### Review 'An absorbing view of a harsh slice of Australian history.' **Melbourne Herald Sun** 'A master storyteller.' **Brisbane Courier Mail** 'Crookes is a natural storyteller.' **Perth Sunday Times** 'Entertaining and easy to read. I couldn't put it down.' **Northern Territory News** 'A broad, bold narrative... a stirring historical adventure-romance'. **Gold Coast Bulletin** 'Crookes is a born spinner of yarns.' **Ballarat Courier** ### From the Author My apologies for proofreading errors in the first upload of this title which was from an early draft. They have since been addressed.