Follow up novel by Ken Little eagerly awaited

Dec. 7, 2010 - PRLog -- Aptly this book is dedicated to the hard working people on the land who are at the coal face every day and never seem to get their just rewards. They endure droughts, floods, isolation, disappointment and hardships but they persevere because it’s in their nature to and it’s a job that has to be done.

Kate Macarthur is no ordinary girl. Popular and precociously talented, she grows up in the farming community of Shepherd’s Creek in a loving family who have many secrets. She lives an almost fairytale existence until she is confronted by the harsh realities of life and death and the imperfections of those around her.

Kate excels in whatever she puts her mind to both at school and university. On the way through she picks up many male admirers but casts her suitors aside when they fail to measure up to her lofty standards.

In her final year at university Kate begins a relationship with her cousins’ teacher Matt Hanson which is threatened when she uncovers criminal activity in the company she works for. Compromised and with her community’s wellbeing at stake Kate is forced to make a far reaching decision which could jeopardise her relationship with Matt as well as putting at risk the livelihoods of the people she loves.

Set mainly in the sixties and seventies but with a historical backdrop that spans more than half the century, Kate is a heroic figure whose life is sprinkled with amusing and often touching relationships. Her character shines through when she shows courage and integrity by standing up against the injustices she come across and her actions are vindicated by her final triumph at the end.  

Ken Little grew up on Sydney’s northern beaches where he was a referee, coach and keen sportsman representing his district in cricket, rugby union and athletics. He went to school at Narrabeen Boys’ High and trained as a primary school teacher at Wagga Teachers’ College from where he was selected to play rugby union for New South Wales Country. He was appointed to a small school near Wagga and played with the local Australian Rules team. A crippling injury at the school saw him transferred to the Correspondence School in Sydney. While there he wrote three books in a series of school readers on Australiana called Bunyip Books. During this time he coached a sub district rugby team.

Later he worked as an itinerant teacher based in Bourke where he visited students living on isolated properties. He returned to Sydney to study special education and taught special classes for the next 17 years. During that time Ken wrote musicals and plays for schools and church groups, completed a script-writing course and studied for a master’s degree in Ministry. He has taught children’s groups at church for many years and presently he tutors primary and high school students and has been a JP since 1993.

He lives at Collaroy Plateau on Sydney’s northern beaches with his wife Jenny, (a midwife and lactation consultant) and has two children, Stephen, (a graphic designer and uni student), who is married to Dani, and Alison, (a school teacher).

'Maid in Shepherd's Creek' by Ken Little ISBN: 978-1-921574-88-7 RRP $33.95 Fiction
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