The Woolgrower's Companion

Author(s): Joy Rhoades

Aust Fiction

'A heart-breaking love story from a great new voice' Saga


Australia 1945. Until now Kate Dowd has led a sheltered life on her family's sprawling sheep station but, with her father's health in decline, the management of the farm is increasingly falling to her.


Kate is rising to the challenge when the arrival of two Italian POW labourers disrupts everything - especially when Kate finds herself drawn to the enigmatic Luca Canali.


Then 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.

19.99 AUD

Stock: 0


Add to Wishlist


Product Information

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.

General Fields

  • : 9780143787525
  • : Random House Australia
  • : BANTAM AUSTRALIA ORIGINAL
  • : 0.292
  • : February 2018
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 416
  • : 823.92
  • : Paperback
  • : Joy Rhoades