Maggie Harris has left the quiet English village of her birth, with its apple orchards and all the people most dear to her, and travelled to Australia for the adventure of her life…<br /> <br />Despite all her planning, nothing can prepare her for when she arrives at McKinnley Sheep Station, in a blaze of dust and barking kelpies, and straight into the turbulent path of Jack McKinnley, the station owner’s handsome son and his dangerous girlfriend.<br /> <br />The...
Monday’s child is fair of face, Tuesday’s child is full of grace, Wednesday’s child is full of woe, Thursday’s child has far to go … Maggie is Thursday’s Child, a spirited girl growing up in an English country village surrounded by apple orchards and hop fields. Neighbours are friends and the local landowner, the Squire, is a fair, decent man to his workers. Life could be idyllic, if not for the unwelcome intrusion of air raids. This is 1941 and WW2 is raging. When peacetime is finally...
