The road to Ironbark

Resource Information

The work The road to Ironbark represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The road to Ironbark

Statement of responsibility

Kaye Dobbie

Creator

• Dobbie, Kaye, 1957-

Author

• Dobbie, Kaye, 1957-

Subject

• Family secrets -- Fiction
• Gold mines and mining -- Australia | Victoria -- Fiction
• Gold mines and mining -- Victoria -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
• Goldfields -- Victoria -- Fiction
• Historical fiction
• Australian fiction
• Robbery -- Fiction
• Victoria -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction
• Hotelkeepers -- Fiction
• Bushrangers -- Fiction

Genre

• Historical fiction
• Fiction
• Australian fiction

Language

eng

Summary

1874, The Victorian Goldfields. In the town of Ironbark, Aurora Scott faces ruin as the railways supplant the Cobb & Co coach line, the lifeline of her hotel. Aurora is no stranger to adversity; the formidable publican has pulled herself from a murky past to build a respectable life in Ironbark. But when bushrangers storm the hotel, taking hostages as leverage for the Starburst Mine's payroll, Aurora has more trouble on her hands than she can handle. This is no random act, but a complex scheme of revenge. The gang turn on each other. Shots ring out. And when the dust settles, the money has vanished, and so has Aurora Scott... After 150 years, the mystery of the missing payroll has passed into folklore. And when journalist Melody Lawson helps her brother prepare for the town's annual Gold Hunt Weekend, she is just as drawn into the past as the tourists. But with a surprise inheritance her own family history becomes a puzzle, bound up with the fabled payroll - and as Melody follows the clues, danger mounts..

Cataloging source

SALS

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult