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Grasping at Shadows

In 1975, a young Adelaide teacher, who wanted to write for the theatre, fell in love with a geologist and followed him to the abandoned Tasmanian mining town of Balfour, situated in what is now known as the Tarkine. With another couple and their two small children, they lived the 1970s ‘back to the bush’ dream while operating a small-scale tin mining plant.

Part memoir, part history, this is a lively account – the comedy and tragedy – of life in a remote mining community, in both the early 1900s and between 1975 and 1981.