Purple Threads
Purple Threads is a 2011 short story collection by Jeanine Leane. Based on Leane's childhood, the stories are about Sunny, a Wiradjuri girl, growing up in the Gundagai district during the 1960s and 1970s. Reception. Anita Heiss, writing in "Meanjin", "..fell in love with the story of strong, capable women, living without fear on the land, protecting their home and kin, saving young dying farm animals, while offering readers pearls of wisdom told in their own bush English." "Purple Threads" has also been reviewed by "mETAphor", "Reviews in Australian Studies", and "Outskirts".