City Girl Country Girl The Inspiring True Stories of Courageous Women Forging New Lives in the Australian Bush

City Girl, Country Girl : The Inspiring True Stories of Courageous Women Forging New Lives in the Australian Bush
ISBN: 9781742379814
Publication Date: 23 March 2016

Extraordinary stories from ordinary Australian women who have moved from the city to the country and forged new lives for themselves. From the bestselling author of Women of the Land.

'I'm sitting down to write the opening lines of this book a year to the day since my mum died. She is constantly in my thoughts, not just because I miss her terribly, but because she was the inspiration for this collection of stories about women who have come from very different places to make a new life in rural Australia.'

City Girl, Country Girl brings together the stories of women who have left lives in the city or another country to build a new future in places where knowing how to milk a cow or drive a tractor stand them in far better stead than an ability to negotiate rush-hour traffic or find a good cappuccino. It ranges in scope from the classic outback story of Sarah Durack in the late 1800s, to the author's own mother's experiences of swapping wartime Melbourne for a dairy farm on the Limestone Coast, to the present day. City Girl, Country Girl is a compelling and fascinating account of these women's journeys as they struggle through personal tragedy, hardship and self-doubt with grace, humour, perseverance and more than a little hard work.

About the Author

Liz Harfull is passionate about telling the stories of regional Australia, its people, communities, history and traditions. An award-winning rural journalist and communicator, she grew up on a small farm near Mount Gambier, which has been in the family since the 1860s.

In 2006 Liz walked away from corporate life, as a director of a leading national public relations agency, to write books. Her leap of fa...