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The Big Country (Timms novel)

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He died while writing chapter five. Alma began writing in October 1960. She had helped research and plot all the novels in the saga so the task was relatively easy. "All the main characters were there," she said. "All I had to do was finish the story... Probably my husband would have finished it
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and prospered. Jenny works on a river board and becomes a housekeeper on an isolated station owned by Martha and Henry Gubby.
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E. V. Timms died in 1960, before the novel was finished so his wife Alma completed it.
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differently. But I don't think he would disapprove of what I've done."
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Index


E. V. Timms
Great South Land Saga
Angus and Robertson
Robina
Time and Chance
E. V. Timms
Great South Land Saga
Darling River
Sydney
"Timms again"
The Canberra Times
"Far West Of Yesteryear"
The Canberra Times
The Big Country
AustLit
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E. V. Timms
The Hills of Hate
The Valley of Adventure
James! Don't Be a Fool
Red Mask
The Cripple in Black
Whitehall
Alicia Deane
Conflict
Far Caravan
Uncivilised

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