Marie Therese "Terry" Underwood OAM (born 19 December 1944) is a best-selling Australian author who lived on a remote cattle station in the Northern Territory of Australia.
She dreamed of one day living in such a place, “marrying a farmer and penning her own autobiography.” But Underwood's love affair with the outback was cut short when, at the age of eleven, her family moved to Sydney.
[4] “Some say he broke his back to meet me.”[5][6] A long-distance courtship by correspondence followed after which the couple were married and set out to start their new life in the outback.
"[3] In 1968, Underwood and her new husband John moved to Riveren, a cattle station in the Victoria River District in the North-west of the Northern Territory.
[1] In her memoir, Underwood celebrates the close connection she felt with the landscape and station life stating “Riveren has captured our bodies, hearts and spirits.