At my old age I often forget I have read a story before.
I read through this whole story, and the only thing I remembered was the plane crash killing Miranda.
The whole story was a little unbelievable: a 16 or 17 yr old running a humongous cattle station.
Then expanding and buying and successfully running 4? more.
Bryce fathering a child at about 14 and not finding anything about it till 4 years later, when the boy runs up to him, greeting him, 'Hi, Daddy". A little unbelievable.
Then Bryce walking out of a marriage he seemed to enjoy over the issue of the Overlands trying to use him to either save their empire or to combine with his. No discussion, just walks out.
The whole idea of Australian cattle stations is foreign to a US Midwesterner, where we have rain, lakes, and green fertile soil.
I did run across a website discussing cattle stations and defining terms like station, ranch, rancho, hacienda.
Thanks for this great story. I will see if Quoka has more about Bryce and Kes.