num_pages: 64
description: Ruby Moonlight a novel of the impact of colonisation in mid north South Australia around 1880. The main character Ruby refugee of a massacre shelters in the woods where she befriends an Irishman trapper.The poems convey how fear of discovery is overcome by the need for human contact which in a tense unravelling of events is forcibly challenged by an Aboriginal lawman. The natural world is richly observed and Ruby's courtship is measured by the turning of the seasons.
language: English
title: Ruby Moonlight
publisher: Magabala