The Woolgrower's Companion

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Bantam
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2007
Edition: First Edition

Description: 410 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Set over ten tumultuous months in 1945, The Woolgrowers Companion is the gripping story of one womans fight against all odds, and a sweeping tribute to Australias landscape and its people.‘A wonderful new voice in literary rural fiction Australian Womens WeeklyAustralia 1945. Until now Kate Dowd has led a sheltered life on Amiens, her familys sprawling sheep station in northern New South Wales. The horrors of war have for the most part left her untouched. But with her father succumbing to wounds hes borne since the Great War, the management of the farm is increasingly falling on Kates shoulders.With only the sheep-rearing book The Woolgrowers Companion to guide her, Kate rises to the challenge. However the arrival of two Italian POW labourers unsettles not only the other workers, but Kate too - especially when she finds herself drawn to the enigmatic Luca Canali.Then she receives devastating news. The farm is near bankrupt and the bank is set to repossess. Given just eight weeks to pay the debt, Kate is now in a race to save everything she holds dear.

ISBN: 9780143782131