TY  - BOOK
AU  - Drewe,Robert
TI  - Nimblefoot
SN  - 9780143786450 (paperback)
AV  - PR8260.R49 N55 2022
U1  - A823.4 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Camberwell, VIC
PB  - Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books
KW  - Melbourne Cup (Horse race)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - Horse racing
KW  - Australia
KW  - Jockeys
KW  - Victoria
KW  - Horses
KW  - Missing persons
KW  - Fugitives from justice
KW  - Alternative histories (Fiction)
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Biographical fiction
N1  - Includes bibliographical references
N2  - At the age of ten, and just short of four feet tall, a boy from Ballarat named Johnny Day became Australia's first international sporting hero. Against adult competition he wooed crowds across continents as the World Champion in pedestrianism, the sporting craze of the day. A few years later, in 1870, he won the Melbourne Cup on a horse aptly called Nimblefoot, this time impressing British royalty and Melbourne's high society. And then, still aged only fourteen, this already-famous athlete and jockey disappeared without a trace. Robert Drewe picks up where history leaves off, re-imagining Johnny's life following his great Cup win. Celebrations that night land him in the company of Prince Alfred himself and some key Melbourne identities. But when Johnny becomes a reluctant witness to two murders in the town's most notorious brothel, he finds himself on the run again - this time from the law itself
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