Author Description

Dancing in the Dust is the funny, irreverent, and sometimes heartbreaking story of three nurses working around Australia in the nineteen sixties. Naive and unprepared for what was to follow, they set out in a second-hand Kombi van, totally unsuitable for the outback. Fifty years ago, there were no mobile phones or internet and bush roads were nothing but pot-holes and corrugations. It tells of the highs and lows of nursing in the bush: The old aboriginal woman admitted with her wounds crawling with maggots; the tiny baby surviving Tetanus; the Leprosarium in the Kimberlies; and the children dying from gastro and pneumonia. Join the three midwives in their adventures, battling bulldust, boggy roads and never-ending breakdowns. It is the moving story, told with humour, of every-day Australians struggling to live in the relentless heat and isolation of the Australian Outback.