Holy Day
by Andrew Bovell

Name: Holy Day
Brand: Andrew Bovell
SKU: 9780868197401
Rating: 4.39 (24 reviews)

Highlights

Australian & New Zealand

What readers are saying

Readers appreciate the play for its innovative structure and strong character development. The narrative is described as compelling and powerful, addressing complex themes related to Australia's history with the First Australians. Many find it both rich and disturbing in its presentation.

Innovative structureStrong character developmentCompelling narrativeMight be too disturbing for some

Synopsis

On the white frontier in mid-nineteenth century Australia, a lone, bloodied woman arrives at a traveller's rest in the midst of a violent desert storm with a shocking story to tell.

Aboriginal people have allegedly murdered her husband and stolen her infant child.

But an Aboriginal woman has a different story to tell.

What would cause a missionary's wife to lie?

What chance does the word of an Aboriginal woman have against hers?

A chilling mystery that draws together the lives of four extraordinary women and their men, all struggling to survive in a hostile and misunderstood landscape.