Summary
Set over ten tumultuous months in 1945, The Woolgrower’s Companion is the gripping story of one woman’s fight against all odds, and a sweeping tribute to Australia’s landscape and its people.
‘A wonderful new voice in literary rural fiction’ - Australian Women’s Weekly
Australia 1945. Until now Kate Dowd has led a sheltered life on Amiens, her family’s sprawling sheep station in northern New South Wales. The horrors of war have for the most part left her untouched. But with he…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143787525 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143787527 |
| Author: | Joy Rhoades |
| Publisher: | Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Bantam Australia Original |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 19 March 2018 |
| Weight: | 286g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 26mm |
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About The Author
Joy Rhoades
Joy Rhoades was born in Roma in western Queensland, with an early memory of flat country and a broad sky. Growing up, she loved two things best- reading and the bush, whether playing in creek beds and paddocks, or climbing a tree to sit with a book. Her family would visit her grandmother, a fifth generation grazier and a gentle teller of stories of her life on her family’s sheep farm.
At 13, Joy left Roma for Brisbane, first for school and then to study law at university. After graduating, she worked all over- first Sydney, then London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo and New York. It was in New York that she completed a Masters in Creative Writing at the New School University, and wrote much of The Woolgrower’s Companion, a novel inspired in part by snippets of her grandmother’s life and times.
She now lives in London with her husband and their two young children, but she misses the Australian sky.
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