Box the Pony
By (Author) Scott Rankin
By (author) Leah Purcell
Hodder & Stoughton
Sceptre
1st April 1999
United Kingdom
Tertiary Education
Fiction
Winner of Queensland Premier's Literary Awards: Best Drama (Stage) 2000
Paperback
256
Width 139mm, Height 205mm, Spine 12mm
170g
The semi-autobiographical story of Leah Purcell - or her alter ego Stephanie - which traces the events of her life growing up on an impoverished Aboriginal mission in Queensland. Despite the poverty, violence, lack of education and opportunity, Stepanie is nurtured through the love of her family.