River Run Deep - Softcover

Treasure, Rachael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848090854 ISBN 13: 9781848090859

Publisher: Preface Publishing, 2008

Synopsis

After a terrible argument with her father over their family property, Rebecca throws her kit into the back of her ute and heads north with her sheepdogs. A job as a trainee farmhand takes her into the rowdy world of country dances, 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 Charlie? Or will she return to the mountains to fight for the land and the river that runs through her soul?

It's only when tragedy shatters her world that Rebecca finds a strength and courage she never knew she had, in this action-packed novel of adventure, dreams, heartbreak and love.

About this title

About the Author

Rachael Treasure was born in Hobart in 1968 and now lives on a sheep farm in Tasmania with her husband, children and a menagerie of farm animals. Rachael began her working life as a jillaroo (trainee farmhand) before attending Orange Agricultural College in New South Wales. She was a rural journalist before becoming a full-time novelist. River Run Deep (published under the title Jillaroo) was a bestseller for Penguin Australia. For more information visit Rachael's website Treasure's Tales www.rachaeltreasure.com

From the Back Cover

From the road along the hillside, Rebecca couldn't bear to look at the sleepy green valley below. It tore her heart out to leave her river. Waters Meeting. Her place.'
But Rebecca's father has told her to get off the farm for ever, after she defied him once too often. In a family half-destroyed by anger and grief, Rebecca becomes an exile.
Heading north with her sheepdogs, she throws herself into a rollercoaster life of work, parties and men - one of whom, the wildest and most handsome of them all, will capture her heart and turn her life upside down.
In this gripping story, set against the great open spaces of the Australian Outback, Rebecca Saunders faces a dreadful choice - follow the man of her heart to a place where she can never be happy, but where he must be, or return to the moutains to fight for the land and the river which runs through her soul. When finally tragedy strikes, she has to decide.
'Drama, fun, rocky romances and many adventures ... By the end of this book, you yearn for a ute, a pair of boots and the wide open spaces' Australian Women's Weekly

Edition details

• Publisher: Preface Publishing
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848090854
• ISBN 13: 9781848090859
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384