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Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 Cleanskin Cowgirls
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'The must-read new novel from Australia's no.1 rural fiction author.

'On the surface Elsie Jones, country music superstar, has it all. But a brush with death forces her to re-evaluate her life.

'Growing up a misfit in the dying wheatbelt town of Culvert, her only friend is chubby Tara Green. At sixteen the girls escape in a rust-bucket ute with a nearly-dead dog, a mop and bucket, a guitar and $74.85. What could possibly go wrong?

'While the road leads them to the outback scrub mustering cleanskin cattle, there's just one problem. Elsie and Tara have left their hearts in Culvert with their childhood sweethearts, eccentric inventor twins Zac and Amos Smith, who are hiding an incredible secret in their farm shed.

'After a devastating betrayal, the girls are led on very different journeys. Can they find their way home again or is their friendship lost forever?

'Cleanskin Cowgirls is a powerful story about taking risks, letting go, and learning that miracles don't just happen... they can be made. ' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Dedication: For Claire 'Wooks' Headlam, my tribe.
  • Epigraph:

    Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.

    After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.

    Zen proverb, attributed to Hsin Hsn Ming

    It is only a thought.

    And thoughts can be changed.

    Louise Hay

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Other Formats

  • Sound recording.
  • Large print.

Works about this Work

Heartlands Rosemary Neill , 2015 single work
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 10-11 January 2015; (p. 3)
'Rural romance may be our top-selling local fiction genre, writes Rosemary Neill'
Review : Cleanskin Cowgirls 2014 single work
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 11 October 2014; (p. 21)

— Review of Cleanskin Cowgirls Rachael Treasure , 2014 single work novel
Review : Cleanskin Cowgirls 2014 single work
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 11 October 2014; (p. 21)

— Review of Cleanskin Cowgirls Rachael Treasure , 2014 single work novel
Heartlands Rosemary Neill , 2015 single work
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 10-11 January 2015; (p. 3)
'Rural romance may be our top-selling local fiction genre, writes Rosemary Neill'
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