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A woman describes her experiences living with her husband in a sod house on the Dakota prairie.
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Ann Turner is an award-winning screenwriter and director, avid reader, and history lover. She is drawn to salt-sprayed coasts, luminous landscapes, and the people who inhabit them all over the world. She is a passionate gardener. Her films include the historical feature
Celia, starring Rebecca Smart—which
Time Out listed as one of the fifty greatest directorial debuts of all time;
Hammers Over the Anvil, starring Russell Crowe and Charlotte Rampling; and the psychological thriller
Irresistible starring Susan Sarandon, Sam Neill, and Emily Blunt. Ann has lectured in film at the Victorian College of the Arts. Returning to her first love, the written word, in her debut novel
The Lost Swimmer, Ann explores themes of love, trust, and the dark side of relationships. Her second novel,
Out of the Ice, a mystery thriller set in Antarctica, was published to great acclaim in Australia and will be available in the United States in 2018. Ann was born in Adelaide and lives in Victoria. Visit Ann’s website at AnnTurnerAuthor.com.
Riassunto
Tell you about the prairie years? I'll tell you, child, how it was.
And through a combination of spare, poetic text and expansive illustrations, readers can learn of life on the prairie as the settlers knew it -- seen through the eyes of a woman who lived there a century ago.
