Winged Seeds by Katharine Susannah Prichard (Virago Modern Classics)

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The final novel in Katharine Susannah Prichard’s stirring saga about the lives of a remarkable woman and her family during the gold rush in Western Australia.

Winged Seeds is the concluding novel to Katharine Susannah Prichard’s far-reaching goldfields trilogy.

It is 1936. Sally Gough is now a widow, living with her lover Frisco de Morphe, who has always loved her. The third generation of Goughs, Sally’s grandchildren, make their lives on the land.

Once again, global events threaten to overtake them: the Depression has tightened its hold. There is tumult at home on the goldfields. Sally’s grandson Bill has taken up the torch of socialism from his uncle Tom Gough and organises his fellow miners.

Then war breaks out, and Sally’s family is threatened as never before as Bill and his comrades are called away to the trenches of Europe.