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Author event at Oakey Library: Liz Harfull's My Cup of Tea event

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From:Tuesday 17 May 2016
To:Tuesday 17 May 2016
Time:10:30am -  Tuesday 17 May 2016
Location:Oakey Library, 60 Campbell Street, Oakey, QLD Australia
 

Best selling author Liz Harfull promotes her newly released book City Girl Country Girl at the My Cup of Tea event.

Event details

Books will be on sale on the day, a special discount on the normal retail prices with author signing (cash payable on the day):

Prices:

  • City Girl Country Girl - $25 (RRP $30);
  • Women of the Land $20 (RRP $23);
  • Bundle pack of both City Girl Country Girl & Women of the Land together for $40, (a substantial discount of 25%);
  • The Australian Blue Ribbon Cookbook will be available for $35, normally $40. 

Light refreshments will be available.

There will also be free community talks featuring guest speakers from the local community and beyond.

City Girl Country Girl 

From the bestselling author of Women of the Land.  Liz Harfull's City Country Girl includes inspiring true stories of courageous women forging new lives in the Australian bush including the stories of several generations of women from the Tully family. 

I’m sitting down to write the opening lines of this book a year to the day since my mum died. She is constantly in my thoughts, not just because I miss her terribly, but because she was the inspiration for this collection of stories about women who have come from very different places to make a new life in rural Australia.’

City Girl, Country Girl brings together the stories of women who have left lives in the city or another country to build a new future in places where knowing how to milk a cow or drive a tractor stand them in far better stead than an ability to negotiate rush-hour traffic or find a good cappuccino.

It ranges in scope from the classic outback story of Sarah Durack in the late 1800s, to the author’s own mother’s experiences of swapping wartime Melbourne for a dairy farm on the Limestone Coast, to the present day. City Girl, Country Girl is a compelling and fascinating account of these women’s journeys as they struggle through personal tragedy, hardship and self-doubt with grace, humour, perseverance and more than a little hard work.

About the Author

Liz Harfull DSC 0020 4 ResizedLiz Harfull is passionate about telling the stories of regional Australia, its people, communities, history and traditions. An award-winning rural journalist and communicator, she grew up on a small farm near Mount Gambier, which has been in the family since the 1860s.

In 2006 Liz walked away from corporate life, as a director of a leading national public relations agency specialising in agriculture, to write books. Since then she has written two national best-sellers, Women of the Land , about women running their own farms, and The Australian Blue Ribbon Cookbook, featuring stories and recipes from country shows and country show cooks.

Today Liz lives in the Adelaide Hills, juggling a busy writing career with travelling Australia to visit the places and meet the people that inspire her writing.

Oakey Library
60 Campbell Street
Oakey
QLD
Australia
 
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Contact phone 4692 0154
Booking informationTo book please contact the Oakey Library.
Event websitehttp://www.lizharfull.com/
Is food and drink available?Yes
Are toilets available?Yes
Is there disabled access?Yes

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