Three lives, three generations, three vivid voices from the past voices by turn passionate, witty, bitter, and tragic -- The Yandilli Trilogy resonates with the echoes and presentiments, the myths and ancestral memories that lie beneath the surface of colonial Australia. The Second Bridegroom describes the strange, almost magical adventures of an escaped convict the first white man to set foot in New South Wales. The Grisly Wife turns on a gripping story thirty years later, in 1868, of fanaticism, religious cults, and murder. And Captivity Captive, based on an unsolved triple murder in Australia at the turn of the century, concludes the trilogy.

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