The woolgrower's companion
Rhoades, Joy2017
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Kate Dowd's mother raised her to be a lady but she must put away her white gloves and pearls to help save her family's sheep farm in New South Wales. It is 1945, the war drags bitterly on and it feels like the rains will never come again. All the local, able-bodied young men, including the husband Kate barely knows, have enlisted and Kate's father is struggling with his debts and his wounds from the Great War. He borrows recklessly from the bank and enlists two Italian prisoners of war to live and work on the station. With their own scars and their defiance, the POWs Luca and Vittorio offer an apparent threat to Kate and Daisy, the family's young Aboriginal maid. But danger comes from surprising corners and Kate finds herself more drawn to Luca than afraid of him.
Main title:
The woolgrower's companion / Joy Rhoades.
Author:
Rhoades, Joy, author
Imprint:
London : Chatto & Windus, 2017.
Collation:
410 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9781784741341 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.92GF
LC class:
PR9619.4
Local class:
F
Language:
English
BRN:
1925037