Books by Jeannie Morgan

The Clearing is a sequel to award winning author Jeannie Morgan’s prize winning first novel, Absence of Manners. Once again she vividly captures the realities and intricacies of life in mid nineteenth century Australia.Andrew Walters, an unsophisticated colonial lad, is dragged by a long hidden family secret into the tragedy of the Scottish Highland Clearances. At the same time, his own country, Australia, and his own life, are being changed forever by the tumult of the gold rushes. Love, loyalty and betrayal stretch his beliefs and his person. Is any of it worth the struggle? About Author.Jeannie Morgan is a retired Secondary English and History teacher who has travelled and lived in Third World countries where upheaval and change of the ancient order are ongoing.She sees parallels to the early years of Australia’s early white settlement. She enjoys researching this history,especially from primary sources,and attempts to share these insights with the reader. 

In the kaleidoscopic society of early white settlement in Australia, the sensuously beautiful daughter of the clerk of the local court, a free settler, Emily Walters becomes intimately involved with an escaping convict. Now on her eighteenth birthday, Emily believes she is a ruined woman. Guilt and shame lead her to embark on a life of service and caring for others.Meanwhile the wrongfully convicted escapee is compelled to clear his name for himself, for his family and for Emily. Can life be reborn and love renewed?This debut novel by Jeannie Morgan vividly captures the hardships and triumphs of the Australian bush.