David Malouf 
Harland »s Half Acre 

Born on a poor dairy farm in Queensland, Frank Harland »s life is centred on his great artistic gift, his passionate love for his father and four brothers and his need to repossess, through a patch of land, his family »s past. The story spans Frank »s life; from before the First World War, through years as a swaggie in the Great Depression and Brisbane in the forties, to his retirement to a patch of Australian scrub where he at last takes possession of his dream.
Harland »s Half Acre tells how a man sets out to recover the land his ancestors discovered and then lost and how, in fulfilment, this vision becomes a new reality.