The Farmer's Wife

Rachael Treasure

Apr 2013 · Sold by HarperCollins Australia

About this ebook

She got her fairytale ending ... but life had other plans.

After ten years being married to larrikin Charlie Lewis and living on her beloved property, Waters Meeting, Rebecca is confronted by a wife's biggest fear, a mother's worst nightmare and a farm business that's bleeding to death. Can Rebecca find the inner strength she once had as a young jillaroo, to save everything she cherishes? Or is life about to teach her the hardest lesson: that sometimes you simply have to let go.

This uplifting and insightful tale deals with the truth about love that the Cinderella stories never tell us. Rebecca's journey is everywoman's journey, and a resonant tale for our times.

Rachael Treasure is Australia's bestselling author of rural fiction.

Praise for Rachael Treasure's novels:

'Rebecca is a wonderful character being both feisty and fallible ... Jillaroo is a widely appealing read' Bookseller + Publisher

'Treasure writes with true grit, wit and warmth' Australian Women's Weekly

Ratings and reviews

Confronting and very much like real life. Rachael Treasure has a gift for telling the story so naturally and her characters are so easy to relate to.

A fun read. This was a great story of discovering how life's changes change you. Loved Rebecca, but wanted to smack Charlie. Book ended well before I was ready. Hope there is a continuation with what life has in store for Bec and her children.

I have read all of Rachael Treasures books and this one was the most inspirational of them all and I learned a great deal from it. I felt connected to Bec even with the gender difference. Thank you Rachael Treasure.

About the author

Rachael Treasure lives in Southern Tasmania/Lutruwita with her two children and their farm animals, including a goat called Barbara Gordon. She is the co-founder of Ripple Farm Landscape Healing Hub and uses regenerative agricultural and natural sequence farming principles to restore farming landscape. Her 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 Australian fiction. Rachael is a rural business administration graduate of Sydney University's Orange Agricultural College and has a Bachelor of Arts in creative writing and journalism from Charles Sturt University in Bathurst. She has worked as a journalist for Rural Press and ABC Rural Radio. Rachael currently supplies holistic farm product to the online farmer's market, Tasmanian Produce Collective. Milking Time is her eighth novel.