Bella's Run

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Random House Australia, 2012 - Fiction - 391 pages
Bella Vermaelon and her best friend Patty are two fun-loving country girls bonded in a sisterhood no blood tie could ever beat. Now they are coming to the end of a road trip which has taken them from their family farms in the rugged Victorian high country to the red dust of the Queensland outback. For almost a year they have mustered on cattle stations, cooked for weary stockmen, played hard at rodeos and outback parties, and danced through life like a pair of wild tumbleweeds. And with the arrival of Patty's brother Will and Bella's cousin Macca, it seems love is on the horizon too. Then a devastating tragedy strikes, and Bella's world is changed for ever.So she runs - from the only life she has ever known. But can she really turn her back on the man she loves? Or on the land that runs deep in her blood?

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About the author (2012)

Margareta Osborn is a fifth-generation farmer in East Gippsland, who has lived and worked all her life on farms and stations from Gippsland, Victoria to outback Queensland. She is a past winner of the prestigious Victorian Rural Woman's Leadership Bursary, has a degree in Conservation and Land Management with years of experience in Landcare and agricultural extension. Publishing many stories and articles in newspapers and rural journals, she has a regular page in the popular country living magazine GIPPSLAND COUNTRY LIFE. BELLA'S RUN is her first novel.

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