{"product_id":"the-woolgrowers-companion-by-joy-rhoades-9780143787525","title":"The Woolgrower's Companion","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet over ten tumultuous months in 1945, \u003cem\u003eThe Woolgrower's Companion\u003c\/em\u003e is the gripping story of one woman's fight against all odds, and a sweeping tribute to Australia's landscape and its people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'A wonderful new voice in literary rural fiction'\u003c\/em\u003e - Australian Women's Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAustralia 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 her father succumbing to wounds he's borne since the Great War, the management of the farm is increasingly falling on Kate's shoulders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith only the sheep-rearing book \u003cem\u003eThe Woolgrower's Companion\u003c\/em\u003e to guide her, Kate rises to the challenge. However, the arrival of two Italian POW labourers unsettles not only the other workers but Kate too - especially when she finds herself drawn to the enigmatic Luca Canali.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThen she receives devastating news. The farm is near bankrupt, and the bank is set to repossess. Given just eight weeks to pay the debt, Kate is now in a race to save everything she holds dear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'A heart-breaking tale beautifully told . . . This compelling story of war and love, of family and prejudice is magical'\u003c\/em\u003e - Kathryn Stockett, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Help\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'This sweeping epic set in rural NSW is about love, family and testing our mettle - and it's compulsively readable. Just the thing for those lazy summer days'\u003c\/em\u003e - Marie Claire\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46556199616748,"sku":"9780143787525","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/4591443482239.jpg?v=1750144079","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/the-woolgrowers-companion-by-joy-rhoades-9780143787525","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}