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Half wild, based on the incredible true lives of Eugene Falleni, Pip Smith

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Half wild

Pip Smith

based on the incredible true lives of Eugene Falleni

Sydney, 1938. After being hit by a car on Oxford Street, 63-year-old Jean Ford lies in a coma in Sydney Hospital. She has 100 pounds in her pocket, but no identification. Memories come back to her -- a murder trial, a life in prison -- but with each prick of the needle her memories begin to shift. Wellington, 1885. Tally Ho doesn't need to go to school because she is going to be a fisherman or a cart driver. Papa takes her fishing, Nonno teaches her how to jump fences on his horse -- life gallops on the way it should, until a brother, William, is born. Taking the advice of her hero, Harry Crawford, she runs away. Sydney, 1917. The burned body of a woman is discovered on the banks of the Lane Cove River. Nobody knows who she is, until -- three years later -- a tailor's apprentice tells police that his mother went missing that same weekend, and that his stepfather, Harry Crawford, is not who he seems to be..

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