Really enjoying this History. Nearly finished it and will be sad to put it down. I was thinking about what I could say quickly about this book and can't really put it any better than the back cover blurb. "... the legendary Ned Kelly speaks for himself, scribbling his narrative on errant scraps of paper in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose as he flees from the police." The sentences run together with few full stops but magical the writing is. Every few pages is a passage that just blows me away, the sort of writing that my 3rd form English teacher Mr Cook suggested we write down in a notebook as we came across it in our reading. Like this, for example: in this passage a policeman drunkenly fires a shot through the roof in the presence of baby George, Ned Kelly and others. In that instant, the baby's eyes changed colour from blue to "a yellow brown the colour of a ginger cat. In the heat of a furnace metals change their nature in olden days they could make gold from lead. Wait to see what more there is to hear my dear daughter for in the end we poor uneducated people will all be made noble in the fire."
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