Sisters of the Southern Cross, Jean Grainger
Sisters of the Southern Cross, Jean Grainger
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Sisters of the Southern Cross

Author: Jean Grainger

Narrator: Siobhan Waring

Unabridged: 7 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/06/2023

Synopsis

Queensland, Australia, 1936 Sister Claire McAuliffe has been called from Dungarvan, County Waterford, to do God’s work in Jumaaroo, Queensland. Along with four other sisters, she is charged with setting up a Catholic school for the education of the gold rush families. But life between the tropical Australian rainforest and the azure ocean is far from the spectacular paradise it seems. Sister Claire finds life challenging in more ways than she can count - the heat, the terrifying creatures that lurk in every nook and cranny, the crocodiles and snakes - but far more worrying is the constant presence of the much-loved mayor of Jumaaroo, Joseph McGrath. Why does a person so respected give Claire such cause for concern? Is it the cruel way he speaks about the Aboriginal people who live on the mission? A closed community run by a peculiar religious leader who seems to deeply resent the arrival of the nuns? As Claire learns of the manner in which the Bundagulgi are treated, she is forced to act, but nobody wants to upset the status quo, and a meddlesome nun suddenly is a dangerous one.

About Jean Grainger

Jean Grainger is an Irish bestselling author who specializes in contemporary as well as historical fiction. Once a tour guide for Ireland, she went on to become an English and history teacher in a secondary school for boys. The winner of the 2016 Author's Circle Historical Novel of Excellence, she currently resides with her husband and children in rural County Cork, Ireland.

About Siobhan Waring

Siobhan Waring is a British audiobook narrator and voiceover artist. An Earphones Award winner and the winner of the 2021 Independent Audiobook Award for Best Female Narrator, she has recorded over sixty books in a wide range of genres. She also records voiceover for e-Learning, radio, commercial, online, corporate, and documentary applications.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Marilyn (not getting notifications) on June 12, 2023

I have wanted to read a book by Jean Grainger for some time. When I saw this audiobook and read the blurb about it, I was intrigued. Sisters of the Southern Cross took place in Queensland, Australia during the mid 1930’s in a town called Jumaaroo. It was told from the POV of Sister Claire McAuliffe......more

Goodreads review by Carol Anne on June 21, 2020

I’m an Aussie, and for what it’s worth I’m an Agnostic Aussie...! christened Protestant. Due to my father’s poor health I was forced to attend a Catholic Boarding School in Tamworth NSW at age Ten. I remember the misery of my time there, after the freedom of Farm life, the rules were dire. I wish th......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca A. Coulter on August 09, 2020

Good book about a young short round nun from Ireland who went to Australia and found herself caught between the townspeople, the aborigines and an horrible man. She showed such strength and love in her dealings with all. This book is new and the author was in Australia during the covid doing resear......more

Goodreads review by Susanne Laurie on February 24, 2025

Yeah, one for morally right I felt is was a part of history. Growing up Catholic and the nuns being part of your of your story it was as real as it could be . After all part of every country s history is to move ahead for future and progress and keep the natives of the land surppressed. Well written......more

Goodreads review by Debora on January 31, 2022

I enjoyed this book based in the rainforest of Northern Australia. Told from the perspective of an Irish Nun, it was facilitating with details of Australia that I had knowledge of. It was a sweeping take of Aboriginals and their take on colonization. As all Nations who ‘discovered’ a land long inhab......more

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