The Resource The orchardist's daughter, Karen Viggers
The orchardist's daughter, Karen Viggers
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- Summary
- Sixteen-year-old Mikaela has grown up isolated and homeschooled on an apple orchard in southeastern Tasmania, until an unexpected event shatters her family. Eighteen months later, she and her older brother Kurt are running a small business in a timber town. Miki longs to make connections and spend more time in her beloved forest, but she is kept a virtual prisoner by Kurt, who leads a secret life of his own. When Miki meets Leon, another outsider, things slowly begin to change. But the power to stand up for yourself must come from within. And Miki has to fight to uncover the truth of her past and discover her strength and spirit
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The orchardist's daughter
- Title
- The orchardist's daughter
- Statement of responsibility
- Karen Viggers
- Title variation
- orchardists daughter
- Subject
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- Australian fiction
- trueBrothers and sisters
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- trueCourage in teenage girls
- Domestic violence -- Fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Family relationships -- Fiction
- Family violence -- Fiction
- trueFriendship
- trueIndependence in teenage girls
- trueLife change events
- trueTasmania
- Tasmania -- Fiction
- trueTeenage girls
- trueWilderness areas
- trueAustralia
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Sixteen-year-old Mikaela has grown up isolated and homeschooled on an apple orchard in southeastern Tasmania, until an unexpected event shatters her family. Eighteen months later, she and her older brother Kurt are running a small business in a timber town. Miki longs to make connections and spend more time in her beloved forest, but she is kept a virtual prisoner by Kurt, who leads a secret life of his own. When Miki meets Leon, another outsider, things slowly begin to change. But the power to stand up for yourself must come from within. And Miki has to fight to uncover the truth of her past and discover her strength and spirit
- Award
- Librarians' Choice (Australia), 2019.
- Biographical or historical data
- Born in Melbourne and raised in the Dandenong Ranges riding horses and writing stories, Karen went on to study veterinary science at Melbourne University before working in practice for several years. She completed a PhD in wildlife health, and since then she has worked on a wide range of Australian native animals, including kangaroos. Karen loves landscapes, wild places, people and animals. She is the author of three novels: The Stranding (2008) and the bestselling, The Lightkeeper's Wife (2011) and The Grass Castle. She lives in Canberra with her husband and two children.
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- 10753078
- Cataloging source
- YDX
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- Viggers, Karen
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
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- Family relationships
- Domestic violence
- Families
- Family violence
- Brothers and sisters
- Tasmania
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The orchardist's daughter, Karen Viggers
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000064540016
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 389 pages
- Isbn
- 9781760630584
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1059253273
- Label
- The orchardist's daughter, Karen Viggers
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000064540016
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 389 pages
- Isbn
- 9781760630584
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1059253273
Subject
- Australian fiction
- trueBrothers and sisters
- Brothers and sisters -- Fiction
- trueCourage in teenage girls
- Domestic violence -- Fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Family relationships -- Fiction
- Family violence -- Fiction
- trueFriendship
- trueIndependence in teenage girls
- trueLife change events
- trueTasmania
- Tasmania -- Fiction
- trueTeenage girls
- trueWilderness areas
- trueAustralia
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