''The Big Country'' is an 1962 Australian novel by

E. V. Timms Edward Vivian Timms (1895–1960), better known as E. V. Timms, was an Australian novelist and screenwriter. He was injured serving in the Gallipoli Campaign during World War I and was an unsuccessful soldier settler before turning to writing. ...

and Alma Timms. It was the eleventh in the

Great South Land Saga The Great South Land Saga was a series of 12 novels by E. V. Timms and his wife Alma. From the beginning, Timms envisioned a 12-part series of novels. However he died while writing the eleventh and his wife took over the completion of that. She the ...

of novels. E. V. Timms died in 1960, before the novel was finished so his wife Alma completed it. He died while writing chapter five. Alma began writing in October 1960. She had helped research and plot all the novels in the saga so the task was relatively easy. "All the main characters were there," she said. "All I had to do was finish the story... Probably my husband would have finished it differently. But I don't think he would disapprove of what I've done."

Plot

In the 1870s, beyond in Darling River, a half-caste girl, Jenny Courage, searches for her father, George Crumby, who abandoned her and her mother. George has moved to

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and prospered. Jenny works on a river board and becomes a housekeeper on an isolated station owned by Martha and Henry Gubby.

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