Summer at Mount Hope

Rosalie Ham

Duffy & Snellgrove

The Dressmaker

Duffy and Snellgrove

A black comedy about a young woman’s attempt to resist the worlds of men and money, from the bestselling author of The Dressmaker.Phoeba Crupp is a gal of inconveniently independent tendencies, to the concern of her mother and her sisters although not of her father—an eccentric ex-accountant who moved his family from the city to a small farm in rural Australia in order to establish a vineyard—a decision Phoeba’s mother bitterly (and loudly) resents.But Phoeba has loved it since the day they arrived. While her sister makes a play for the local squatter’s son, Phoeba is content with her best friend Harriet, until circumstances push her towards the world of men and money. As the local community is shaken up by the arrival of pastoralists, suffragettes, and squatters, carrying the threat and promise of change to their quiet corner of the country, Phoeba wakes up to the realities of the adult world and comes to realise the friendship of those near to her may count for more than she could ever have imagined.Told with Rosalie Ham’s trademark wit and wisdom, Summer at Mount Hope is an unputdownable story of a young woman finding a way to take control of her own destiny.

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Bolinda Audio

The Year of the Farmer

Picador Australia

<p>It is 1953 and Melbourne society is looking forward to coronation season, the grand balls and celebrations for the young queen-to-be. Tilly Dunnage is, however, working for a pittance in a second-rate Collins Street salon. Her talents go unappreciated, and the madame is a bully and a cheat, but Tilly has a past she is desperate to escape and good reason to prefer anonymity.\nMeanwhile, Sergeant Farrat and the McSwiney clan have been searching for their resident dressmaker ever since she left Dungatar in flames. And they aren't the only ones. The inhabitants of the town are still out for revenge (or at least someone to foot the bill for the new high street). So when Tilly's name starts to feature in the fashion pages, the jig is up. Along with Tilly's hopes of keeping her secrets hidden...</p>

The Dressmaker's Secret

Molly: A Prequel To The Dressmaker (paperback)

Pan Macmillan Australia, Sydney

Dungatar is a small town like any other in the Victorian wheatlands - except that the women dress like Paris models. This is the story of the exotic Tilly, a talented and beautiful misfit, who returns from Europe to Dungatar to nurse her mad old mother. Her reappearance after twenty years is met with suspicion and malice from eccentric locals until they discover her startling dressmaking skills. Among the most appreciative is the policeman, an enthusiastic seamstress himself. Gradually she wins over the town with her fabulous creations. Then she falls in love and things start to go terribly wrong.

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