‘Jessica' by Bryce Courtenay is set in the Australian Bush and follows the life Jessica, in her desperate struggle to survive and be accepted. The book begins before the outbreak of World War I and continues finally finishing after the end of that war. Jessica's life revolved around hardship, disaster and injustice. The three people she loved in life, Joe, Jack and Joey, all were taken away from her and she was left alone. Her life was an unhappy saga that finished reminding us that not all endings are happy.
Jessica was a tomboy who helped her father Joe on their small farm near Narrandera. Joe was the only one in the family who loved and accepted her. Her mother and beautiful sister both hated her for dressing like a man and working on the farm. Jessica was stubborn and not self confident as she was told at least once a day by her mother that she was ugly and would never get married. In 1910, Jessica was 14, she got a job being a tar boy at a shearing shed. That was when she......
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