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The fine colour of rust

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Format: Paperback
Library Classification: Adult Fiction
BIC Subjects: Modern fiction
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint: Blue Door
Publication Date: 1/03/2012
Place of Publication: United Kingdom



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AUSTRALIAN. Single mother and dreamer Loretta Boskovic lives in Gunapan, a town lost in the scrubby Australian bush. She has fantasies about dumping her two kids in the orphanage and riding off on a Harley with her dream lover. Her best pal is a crusty old junk man called Norm. She needs a lawnmower; he gives her two goats called Terror and Panic. Loretta’s a self-dubbed ‘old scrag’, but she’s got a big heart and a strong sense of justice. So when the government threatens to close down Gunapan’s primary school, and there’s a whiff of corruption wafting through the corridors of the local council, Loretta stirs into action. She may be short of money, influence and a fully functioning car, but she has loyal friends. Together they can organise protests, supermarket sausage sizzles, a tour of the abattoir, whatever it takes to hold on to the scrap of world that is home.


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