The Kangaroo Carer

By Ann Chatham

‘The Kangaroo Carer’ is about the true story of a woman who rescues orphan joeys from the pouches of their dead mothers. The mothers were often killed on the road or shot by farmers protecting their crops.
Many Australian towns have a person or group of people who rescue native animals that have been injured in all manner of ways.
This story is about a carer who cared for kangaroo babies over many years. They remembered a place that was safe during the recent bush fires and went there.

By extension this is a story about the importance of all livings things . This is a story about us as the stewards of the earth and how seriously many humans take their stewardship.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris AU
• Release date: May 9, 2023
• ISBN: 9798369491256

Ann Chatham

I live on the south coast of New South Wales Australia, where I live with my husband and one grown up daughter (the other five have left the nest). It is in this place where I have finally given my spirit permission to speak after being silent and afraid for far too long. I was born and lived my formative years in the tiny country town of Peak Hill. My home was a tumbling-down shack in the poor farming community, where my mother, from the age of sixteen, raised six children. My father, older brothers, and uncles were shearers, drovers, and stockmen. A severe drought drove many families off their farms and into the cities to find work. My parents, with my sister and I, came to Wollongong, where my father found work in the coal mines.

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