Tarantino Meets Deadwood In This Full-throttle Drama Of Our Colonial Past. Henry Lawson's Story Of The Drover's Wife Pits The Stoic Silhouette Of A Woman Against The Unforgiving Australian Landscape, Staring Down A Serpent-it's Our Frontier Myth Captured In A Few Pages. In Leah's New Play The Old Story Gets A Very Fresh Rewrite. Once Again The Drover's Wife Is Confronted By A Threat In Her Yard, But Now It's A Man. He's Bleeding, He's Got Secrets, And He's Black. She Knows There's A Fugitive Wanted For Killing Whites, And The District Is Thick With Troopers, But Something's Holding The Drover's Wife Back From Turning This Fella In... Leah Purcell. First Published In 2016. This Revised Edition First Printed 2017--title Page Verso. Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2017 Winner ; Nsw Premier's Literary Awards 2017 Winner, Book Of The Year ; Nsw Premier's Literary Awards 2017 Winner.