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Bryce Fraser takes a break from his inner city flat and moves to the ideal writer’s retreat: a waterfront cottage amongst the trees – and only twenty minutes from the centre of Sydney. He goes fishing and spears, in a most unsportsmanlike fashion, what turns out to be Lennie, the neighbours’ pet leatherjacket who lived beneath the jetty. Oddly enough, these same neighbours entrust him with the job of becoming minder to Rummy, the dingo.
- Book 1 Title: The Laughing Dingo and Other Neighbours
- Book 1 Biblio: Allen $ Unwin, $14.95 pb
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Bryce accepts before pausing to think that being a minder might entail more than tossing Rummy the odd neck of beef, or scragend of mutton. As the author settles in to his new home, he puts up a fight against the brushtail possums who inhabit his roof, and befriends an assortment of local wildlife such as a Muscovy duck, a redback spider and spiny anteater, most of whom get the better of him.
Bryce Fraser tells his tale about his quasi-human friends with humour, in an easy, yearn-spinning style.
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