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'I'm sitting down to write the opening lines of the book per year to the day since my mum perished. She actually is constantly in my thoughts, not just because I miss her terribly but because she was the inspiration for this assortment of tales about women who have come from completely different places to make new lives in rural Australia.' City Lady, Country Lady brings together the tales of women who have left lives in the city or other countries to make new futures in places where focusing on how to milk a cow or drive a tractor stands them in far better stead than an capacity to discuss rush-hour traffic or find a good cappuccino. It amounts in scope from the traditional outback report of Sarah Durack in the overdue 1800s to the author's own mother's experience of swapping wartime Melbourne for a dairy plantation on the Limestone Shoreline for this day. City Lady, Country Lady is a convincing and fascinating bank account of the women's journeys as they struggle through personal tragedy, hardship and self-doubt with elegance, humour, perseverance and more than a little effort.
