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A COUNTRY NURSE
THEA HAYES, ALLEN & UNWIN, $29.99
Thea Hayes qualified as a nurse in Sydney in 1959 and soon after moved to Wave Hill station in the Northern Territory, where she spent the next 20 years as a nurse, wife and mother of four. She has since lived and worked all over, from Toogoolawah and North Stradbroke Island in Queensland to the NSW Riverina, London and just about everywhere in between. This memoir continues the journey that Thea wrote about in An Outback Nurse (Allen & Unwin, 2014). Even though she’s now in her 80s, she says she has no intention of settling down.
