{"product_id":"book-rec-friday-billie-king-by-shannon-kelly-white","title":"Book Rec Friday: Billie King by Shannon Kelly White","description":"\u003cp\u003eA blisteringly fast, fresh, funny and hugely entertaining novel of mothers, daughters and one gutsy wild colonial girl who gets caught up in Australia's last female bushranger's quest for revenge. Think Leah Purcell's \u003cem\u003eThe Drover's Wife \u003c\/em\u003emeets Trent Dalton.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1918: Australia's last bushranger, Dulcie James, holds up Anna King's falling-down farmhouse. There's a scrawny unloved infant on the floor, Anna seems more furious than frightened, and it's the bushranger who's left shaken. And the next day, Anna disappears.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwelve years later, Anna's daughter, Billie King, is a girl ready to explode. With a missing mother, the rent in arrears and her alcoholic father's gambling debts to cover, she has no time for school. But when child services threaten to remove Billie from her father, she must decide between continuing her search for her missing mother and keeping what's left of her family together. If she fails to hold onto her father, she'll be taken away and placed in a children's home, but if she doesn't find her missing mother, who will?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fiction Over Reality","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53520469590332,"sku":null,"price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0946\/9820\/9596\/files\/Screenshot2026-07-10at10.31.25am.png?v=1784253785","url":"https:\/\/fictionoverreality.com.au\/products\/book-rec-friday-billie-king-by-shannon-kelly-white","provider":"Fiction Over Reality","version":"1.0","type":"link"}