- SKU: 9781764616904
- BARCODE: 9781764616904
- VENDOR: BooksCloud
Never Just a Wife - Paperback
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Description
by Timothy McKenzie (Author)
She didn't wait at home. She rode the road.
Never Just a Wife is the story of Bev - a woman who stepped beyond expectation and built a life where there was none laid out for her. Set against the vast and unforgiving Australian landscape, this is a journey across stock routes, stations, and small country towns, where survival depended not on titles, but on grit, instinct, and relentless determination.
From her early years in a rural town to life alongside a drover, Bev's world was one of constant movement. She raised children in wagons and buses, cooked for shearers, travelled long distances before she was ever formally licensed, and kept a family together in a life that refused to stand still. Through drought, hardship, and the quiet, uncelebrated work of holding everything together, she carved out a life that few would have chosen - and fewer still could have endured.
Told through a lens of memory, experience, and reflection, this story draws on real people and places, reshaped into a narrative that captures the truth of a life lived on the margins of expectation. It is not a story of grand gestures, but of the everyday strength required to keep going, to adapt, and to endure.
At its heart, Never Just a Wife is about the unseen work behind a way of life - the sacrifices made without recognition, the resilience forged through necessity, and the quiet decisions that shape a family across years of movement and uncertainty.
Because she was never just a wife.
She was everything that made the life possible.
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