The Boy in the Bush is a novel by D. H. Lawrence set in Western Australia, first published in 1924. It derives from a story in a manuscript given to Lawrence by Mollie Skinner, entitled The House of Ellis. [1] Lawrence and his wife Frieda stayed with Skinner at her guesthouse in Darlington, Western Australia in 1922.
It was made into a miniseries in 1984, directed by Rob Stewart, starring Kenneth Branagh and Sigrid Thornton.
Lawrence, D. H. (1924). Paul Eggert. ed. The Boy in the Bush (1990 ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-30704-X.