''Coonardoo: The Well in the Shadow'' is a novel written by the Australian author

Katharine Susannah Prichard Katharine Susannah Prichard (4 December 18832 October 1969) was an Australian author and co-founding member of the Communist Party of Australia. Early life Prichard was born in Levuka, Fiji in 1883 to Australian parents. She spent her childhoo ...

. The novel evocatively depicts the Australian landscape as it was in the late 1920s, in an age when white settlers tried to control more and more of the bare plains of northwest Australia. Originally submitted to ''The Bulletin'' novel competition in 1928 under the pseudonym Ashburton Jim, this novel was joint winner. It shared the award with ''A House is Built'' by

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. It was first serialised in The Bulletin magazine in 15 weekly instalments from 5 September 1928.Austlit database
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Plot

The novel relates the story of an Aboriginal woman who was prepared since her childhood to be Wytaliba station's housekeeper, but falls in love and has a romance with her owner Hugh Watt, a white man.

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1928 Australian novels Novels first published in serial form Works originally published in The Bulletin (Australian periodical) Novels set in Western Australia Jonathan Cape books Katharine Susannah Prichard {{1920s-novel-stub