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    Rachael Treasure: The Rouseabout

    The Rouseabout by Rachael TreasureRachael Treasure’s latest novel — The Rouseabout, published by Penguin — hits bookstores on April 1. It follows her earlier bestsellers — Jillaroo and The Stockman:

    Kate Webster, a loveable larrikin, likes to play hard now and worry about the consequences later.

    At 19, unhinged by the death of her mother, she takes on a dare at one of Australia’s wildest rural social events — a Bachelors & Spinsters ball.

    Drunk, wearing a red dress and work boots, she sets off to win a dare to ‘scalp’ gorgeous farm boy Nick McDonnell. It’s a dare that will change her life forever …

    After the ball, instead of starting a new life at agricultural college away from her grieving father and pressures of the family farm, Kate discovers she is pregnant.

    Now, years on, with toddler Nell by her side, it’s time for Kate to return home to face the music, and the father of her child.

    Set on the beautiful island of Tasmania, where Rachael Treasure farms and once kicked up her own heels at B&S balls, The Rouseabout is a funny and moving story about motherhood, Bundy rum binges, life and lambing.

    Topics: AUTHORS, Fiction, Rachael Treasure | 1 Comment »

    One Response to “Rachael Treasure: The Rouseabout”

    1. Tess Says:
      November 20th, 2008 at 6:47 pm

      g’day

      i really love the book rouseabout. i was wondering whos the girl on the cover?
      also is the book based on actual people?
      i really relate to kate its amazing. one day i hope i can meet “my nick” so called and be happy as her. also will there be a film based on these novels?

      well cya, thanks

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