Cattle & Sheep & Boats

Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML: August 1957: It seems as though the parting of the ways has come for Mikey Baker and his family as they head for a new life in Australia. Back in England, their friends and family are carrying on with life as before; now a fourth book picks up the stories of Geoffrey Lewis' popular characters from his trilogy of books about life on England's canals.This book takes the reader through thirty years; in England, the canals are still working, the trade still running, at least for a time; in Australia, life on a big outback station is a new experience for the Baker clan. This new tale will allow the many readers of Mr Lewis' trilogy to catch up with the people they have come to know from those books, and see how life has developed for them..… (more)