Life is busy but good for Michael and me, and even though we frequently get tired from work on the farm, we are extremely happy. I feel so lucky to have found my gentle giant.
The homestead on Forrest Downs where, truly, I have found love.
Also by Sheryl McCorry
Diamonds and Dust
Stars over Shiralee
Sheryl McCorry
Diamonds and Dust
Sheryl McCorry grew up in Arnhem Land carrying crocodiles to school for show and tell. When she was 18, Broome beckoned, and it was there that – only hours after being railroaded into marriage by a fast-talking Yank – she locked eyes with Bob McCorry, a drover and buffalo shooter. When her marriage ended after only a few months, they began a romance that would last a lifetime and take them to the Kimberley’s harshest frontiers.
As the only woman in a team of stockmen, Sheryl soon learned how to run rogue bulls and to outsmart the neighbours in the toughest game of all – mustering cattle. The playing field was a million acres of unfenced, unmarked boundaries. But Sheryl soon saw that to survive in the outback a woman needed goals. Hers was to become the first woman in the Kimberley to run two million-acre cattle stations. But it was to come at an unimaginable cost.
Inspiring and unforgettable, Diamonds and Dust is a classic story of a woman finding her destiny in the further reaches of the outback.
Sheryl McCorry
Stars over Shiralee
As the first woman in the Kimberley to run two million-acre cattle stations, Sheryl McCorry had proved to herself that she was a woman capable of handling anything life threw her way. Or so she thought . . .
It’s 1998 and Sheryl has moved from the Kimberley to a property called the ‘Shiralee’ in the south-west of Western Australia. Rocked by the death of the love of her life, Bob McCorry, Sheryl perseveres and makes a new life breeding cattle. Soon, she meets a man from Broome – one who pursues her with ardour and is seemingly a wonderful match for her. Sheryl agrees to marry him but on the eve of her wedding receives some terrible news.
Stars over Shiralee is the story of how a woman having conquered life on her own terms can succumb to the circumstances that would threaten to undermine all her achievements. What will it take for Sheryl to find the strength within?
In turn a love letter to the outback that shaped her and a deeply personal journey back to triumph, Stars over Shiralee is a the compelling follow up to the runaway bestseller, Diamonds and Dust.
Fiona Higgins
Love in the Age of Drought
When Fiona meets Stuart at a conference in Melbourne she isn’t looking for a relationship, let alone the upheaval of falling for a cotton farmer from South-East Queensland. But then life never quite goes according to plan …
When Stuart sends Fiona a pair of crusty old boots and a declaration of his feelings sixteen days into their relationship, it’s the start of a love story that endures – in spite of distance, the strain of Stuart’s farm entering its fourth year of drought, and Fiona’s issues with commitment.
Something’s got to give, and eventually Fiona puts everything on the line – her career, her Sydney life, her future – and moves to Stuart’s farm. Nearest township? Jandowae, population 750.
Here, Fiona encounters an Australia she’s never really known, replete with snakes on the doorstep, frogs in the toilet and the perils of the bush telegraph. Gradually, she begins to fall in love with rural life, but as Stuart struggles to balance environmental and commercial realities she realises that farming isn’t quite as simple as she’d imagined. Ultimately, Fiona has to learn to cope with the devastating impact of the drought that grips the countryside, and what it means for Stuart, the farm and their future together.
Love in the Age of Drought is a delightful fish-out-of-water story about the city–country culture clash overcome by the course of true love. Written with heart and humour, it’s also a moving portrait of country Australia’s capacity for survival and renewal amid a drought that won’t be broken.
First published 2012 in Macmillan by Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd
1 Market Street, Sydney 2000
Copyright © Sheryl McCorry 2012
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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:
McCorry, Sheryl, 1949-
Love on forrest downs / Sheryl McCorry.
McCorry, Sheryl, 1949-
Authors, Australian—Western Australia—Biography.
Ranch managers—Western Australia—Willawarrin—Biography.
Ranches—Western
Australia—Willawarrin—Management.
Frontier and pioneer life—Western Australia—Biography.
636.01092
EPUB format: 9781743347775
Online format: 9781743347751
Some of the people in this book have had their names changed to protect their identity.
WARNING
It is customary in some Aboriginal communities not to mention the names of or reproduce images of the recently deceased. Care and discretion should be exercised in using this book within Arnhem Land, Central Australia and the Kimberley.
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