True History of the Kelly Gang

I am currently reading the novel 'True History of the Kelly Gang' by Peter Carey. This is the life story of an Irish boy, Ned Kelly and his family, who live in Australia in the late 1800's. Ned's father ends up in jail and dies when Ned is twelve, leaving him as the one to care for his mother and her other six children. Now that Mr. Kelly has died, several suitors come to court Ned's mother. Where I am now Ned is fourteen and has ended up becoming apprentice to the infamous bushranger Harry Power.