| Coonardoo: The Well in the Shadow | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Katharine Susannah Prichard |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Novel |
| Publisher | Jonathan Cape, England |
| Publication date | 1929 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 320 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0207126615 (1973 Angus and Robertson edition) |
| OCLC Number | 1133739 |
Coonardoo: The Well in the Shadow is a novel written by the Australian author Katharine Susannah Prichard. The novel depicts the Australian landscape beautifully as it once was in the late 1920s. In an age when white settlers tried to control more and more land of the bare plains of north west Australia.
Originally written under the name Jim Ashburton, this novel was joint winner of the Bulletin Novel Competition in 1928. It shared the award with A House is Built by M. Barnard Eldershaw.
It was first serialised in The Bulletin magazine in 15 weekly instalments from 5 September 1928.[1]