I must have missed this review when you wrote it, so I had to come and see your impressions. An academic paper feels about right - although, there was also a sense of a direct transcript of an oral history about it at times. And yet, the story is still powerful enough to come through.
I've yet to track down the library's copy of the sequel - I've read an extract of it, and it's apparently sadder than Rabbit Proof Fence.
Under the Wintamarra Tree - it continues Molly's story after she returned from the Rabbit Proof Fence journey, and is essentially also Doris's story. I read an interview with Doris Pilkington in which she said she thought the second book was actually more powerful and moving than the first - but I don't think it would film as well, and as a result not as many people are aware of it.
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I've yet to track down the library's copy of the sequel - I've read an extract of it, and it's apparently sadder than Rabbit Proof Fence.
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