When Colts Ran

Kingsley Colts spends decades chasing his own ghost across the Isabel, a patch of Australian sheep country where the local pub is the Five Alls and the population runs to fortune-seekers, painters, failures and dreamers. The men whose lives he enters and leaves are each trying to become their own men, in their own words, after growing up under what their fathers expected. Wayne Hovell, ruled by duty, was hurt in body and spirit by Colts's rebellious youth, yet becomes the one who may redeem him. Dunc Buckler, an eccentric major, hunts the countryside for machinery while a world war passes him by. Normie Powell, whose father is a footballing clergyman, finds a mysticism of his own in studying nature, and the kindly stockman Alan Hooke wants only to be understood at home, where he is outnumbered by women.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Set in

Australia

First published

2010

Author's age

69 when first published

ISBN

9781864710410 (Vintage Australia, Australia)

9781864710441 (Vintage Australia, Australia)

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