Winged Seeds

Winged Seeds is a 1950 novel by Australian author Katharine Susannah Prichard.

[1] The novel is the third in the author's "Goldfields" trilogy, being preceded by The Roaring Nineties and Golden Miles.

[2] The novel is again set in the West Australian goldfields, this time in 1936, and also follows the life of its main character Sally Gough.

A reviewer in The Sydney Morning Herald noted that this trilogy was not to the standard of some of the author's earlier work: "The story began in the early 90s of last century and throughout Miss Prichard has spun three concurrent threads on her loom-the lusty history of the goldfields, the lives and loves of a group of people centring on the vital figure of Sally Gough, and the social struggle of the workers.

It was a very tall order to sustain the three themes for half a century, and now that the trilogy has been completed one feels that the author attempted too much.