![]() They are historically interesting – three of them have World War I as a backdrop ( From Billabong to London Jim & Wally Captain Jim) and are set in locations other than Australia.Ī Little Bush Maid starts off slowly as Norah and the other characters are introduced. The author wrote the Billabong series over the years 1910 to 1942 and they reveal a very different Australia than that of today. It’s best to read the books in chronological order just to get the characters straight (although we didn’t because it took us a decade to gather all the titles in the series) but the books do stand alone. ![]() ![]() There are fifteen books altogether and they follow Norah Linton from when she was a twelve year old growing up at Billabong, her father’s property in rural Victoria, through to her adult years. A Little Bush Maid was published in 1910 and is the first book in the Billabong series by Mary Grant Bruce. ![]()
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