Jillaroo by Rachael Treasure - ISBN: 9780143004080
Paperback
A jillaroo’s journey: love, land, and finding strength within.

Jillaroo

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  • Paperback

    480 pages

  • Release Date

    13 May 2005

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Summary

After a terrible argument with her father over their family property, ‘Waters Meeting’, Rebecca Saunders throws her swag in the ute and heads north with her three dogs. A job as a jillaroo takes her into the rowdy world of B&S balls, Bundy rum and boys. 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 Cha…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780143004080
ISBN-10:0143004085
Author:Rachael Treasure
Publisher:Penguin Random House Australia
Imprint:Penguin Random House Australia
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:480
Release Date:13 May 2005
Weight:444g
Dimensions:198mm x 131mm x 30mm
About The Author

Rachael Treasure

Rachael Treasure lives in Southern Tasmania with her two teenage children and husband Daniel. Together they are establishing the educational Ripple Farm Landscape Healing Hub to share regenerative agricultural principles and Natural Sequence Farming techniques. Rachael’s first novel, Jillaroo, blazed a trail in the Australian publishing industry for other rural women writers and is now considered an iconic work of contemporary fiction.

Rachael began her working life as a jillaroo before studying at Orange Agricultural College (now University of Sydney), and received a BA of Communications at Charles Sturt University. She has worked as a journalist on many publications in Australia’s rural print sector and for ABC rural radio.

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