Bøker av Rachael Treasure

A rollickingly good new novel from the bestselling and much loved author of The Farmer's Wife and Fifty Bales of Hay. The must-read new novel from Australia's no.1 rural fiction author. On the surface Elsie Jones, country music superstar, has it all. But a brush with death forces her to re-evaluate her life. Growing up a misfit in the dying wheatbelt town of Culvert, her only friend is chubby Tara Green. At sixteen the girls escape in a rust-bucket ute with a nearly-dead dog, a mop and bucket, a guitar and $74.85. What could possibly go wrong? While the road leads them to the outback scrub mustering cleanskin cattle, there's just one problem. Elsie and Tara have left their hearts in Culvert with their childhood sweethearts, eccentric inventor twins Zac and Amos Smith, who are hiding an incredible secret in their farm shed. After a devastating betrayal, the girls are led on very different journeys. Can they find their way home again or is their friendship lost forever? Cleanskin Cowgirls is a powerful story about taking risks, letting go, and learning that miracles don't just happen... they can be made. Praise for Rachael Treasure: 'Treasure has a deft touch that enables her to evoke a rural setting with the quick flick of a stockwhip' The Age 'Treasure writes with true grit, wit and warmth' Australian Women's Weekly

A beautiful and moving tale of self-discovery, The Farmer's Wife deals with the truth about relationships that the Cinderella stories never tell us.She got the fairytale ending - but that was just the beginning...When Rebecca Saunders married her party boy Charlie Lewis and they settled down on her beloved farm, she thought the hard work was over. Ten years and two kids later, the idyllic future she imagined seems like a distant fantasy.Her life is a never-ending cycle of running the household and bringing up two small children. There's little time to keep the romance alive, and when Rebecca and Charlie are faced with money troubles, they have very different ideas about how to save the farm.Rebecca is starting to wonder if she ever really knew Charlie - or even herself. Is it too late to rekindle their love? Can they find their way back to one another or has the gulf become too wide?

Robust country girl Emily Flanagan has been raised in the rugged Dargo High Plains by her mountain cattleman father, but despite the beauty of her High Country heritage she feels lost in life.

As she tries to put her life back together, Rosie throws herself into researching the haunting true story of a 19th century Irish stockman, who came to Australia and risked his all for a tiny pup and a wild dream.

Now she seems hell-bent on self-destruction: fighting with her father over the future of their farm after the death of her mother and his remarriage, refusing to reveal the identity of Nell's father, while remaining in love with him, and all too often neglecting Nell herself, while she parties the night away.

When she at last settles down to a bit of study at agricultural college, her life is turned upside down by the very handsome, but very drunken party animal, Charlie Lewis. Will she choose a life of wheat farming on vast open plains with Charlie?