The grazier's wife / Barbara Hannay.
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TextPublisher: [Melbourne, Vic.] : Michael Joseph, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 408 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780143797180; 0143797182Subject(s): Domestic fiction | Queensland - Social life and customs - Fiction | Australian fiction, outback saga | Australian | Family secrets -- Fiction | Ranchers -- Fiction | Interpersonal relations -- Fiction | Women -- Australia -- Fiction | Grazing -- Australia -- Fiction | Country life -- Australia -- Fiction | Australian fiction | Australian fiction | Ranchers - Fiction | Women - Australia - Fiction | Family secrets - Fiction | Country life - Australia - Fiction | Interpersonal relations - Fiction | Grazing - Australia - Fiction | Country life | Families | Family secrets | Grazing | Interpersonal relations | Manners and customs | Ranchers | Women | Families -- Fiction | Queensland -- Fiction | Australia | Queensland | Queensland -- Social life and customs -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction | Domestic fiction. | Fiction. | Domestic fiction. | Australian fiction DDC classification: 823.4 Summary: For three generations of Australian women, becoming a grazier's wife has meant very different things. For Stella in 1946, it was a compromise in the aftermath of a terrible war. For Jackie in the 1970s, it was a Cinderella fairytale with an outback prince. While for Alice in 2015, it is the promise of a bright new future. Decades earlier, Stella was desperate to right a huge injustice, but now a long-held family secret threatens to tear the Drummond family of Ruthven Downs apart. On the eve of a special birthday reunion, with half the district invited, the past and the present collide, passions are unleashed and the shocking truth comes spilling out. From glamorous pre-war Singapore to a vast cattle property in Queensland's Far North, this sweeping, emotional saga tests the beliefs and hopes of three strong women as they learn how to hold on to loved ones and when to let go.
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For three generations of Australian women, becoming a grazier's wife has meant very different things. For Stella in 1946, it was a compromise in the aftermath of a terrible war. For Jackie in the 1970s, it was a Cinderella fairytale with an outback prince. While for Alice in 2015, it is the promise of a bright new future. Decades earlier, Stella was desperate to right a huge injustice, but now a long-held family secret threatens to tear the Drummond family of Ruthven Downs apart. On the eve of a special birthday reunion, with half the district invited, the past and the present collide, passions are unleashed and the shocking truth comes spilling out. From glamorous pre-war Singapore to a vast cattle property in Queensland's Far North, this sweeping, emotional saga tests the beliefs and hopes of three strong women as they learn how to hold on to loved ones and when to let go.
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