A Tambo Girl: Hester Jane's Story

A TAMBO GIRL – HESTER’S STORY is based on a real-life family who resided in and around Tambo, a remote town in Queensland’s outback. It tells the tale of a woman who, living in a time when men made the decisions, never really had her shot at life until her husband died and she was able to take command of it. Her living in Tambo was a constant struggle, with the primitive conditions, the distances, the weather and the attitudes of the men in her family. Hester found herself able to push through the misogyny of the time to run her own life and business in the bustle of Brisbane. How a woman, born and bred in the remote Tambo bush, came to be living a city life, in the jazz age, always intrigued the family. Hester Jane McDonough lived in the last century but was a woman of our time.