The farmer's wife

the long version

When Rebecca Saunders married larrikin Charlie Lewis and they settled down together on her beloved property, Waters Meeting, she thought she knew her future. But ten years on, two kids later, and with a failing farm, Rebecca is beginning to face some hard questions. Where did the free-spirited jillaroo within her go? How did the romance with her husband Charlie become a distant memory? And how can she change a life that has stalled? On a night beneath the Milky Way at the Deniliquin Ute Muster, Rebecca finds that the answers lie within. The sequel to the iconic bestseller Jillaroo, and a beautiful and moving tale of self-discovery, The Farmer's Wife deals with truths about relationships that the Cinderella stories never tell us.