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y separately published work icon A Bush Christmas single work   novella  
Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 A Bush Christmas
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'From the author of Bella's Run, a gloriously funny and hopelessly romantic Christmas story set in the beautiful Australian bush of East Gippsland.

Jaime Hanrahan does not want anything to do Christmas this year.

She's just been retrenched, and if that wasn't bad enough, this is her first Christmas without her beloved father Jack, who died last Boxing Day.

Determined not to spend it with her mother, who has already remarried, and her friends, who still have six-figure jobs, she jumps at the chance to house-sit a mansion in rural Burdekin's Gap.

Two problems.

Number one, the property comes with a handsome station manager, Stirling McEvoy, who doesn't take kindly to a city chick destroying his peace. Especially when she needs rescuing from stampeding cattle, falling Christmas trees and town ladies wielding catering lists and tablecloths.

And two, in Burdekin's Gap there's no chance of escaping the festive season. For the town has its own unique way of celebrating Christmas - big time, BUSH style!' (Publisher's blurb)

Adaptations

y separately published work icon Rose River Margareta Osborn , North Sydney : Random House Australia , 2015 8310514 2015 single work novel romance

'Adapted from Margareta Osborn's bestselling ebook novella A Bush Christmas, Rose River is a gloriously funny romantic comedy set in the beautiful Australian outback.

'Take one city girl - and drop her into the back of beyond ...

'Housesitting in rural Burdekin's Gap, high up in the East Gippsland mountains, is not an obvious career move for a PR executive like Jaime Hanrahan. But, hey, retrenchment is a kicker.

'Plus she's determined not to spend Christmas in Melbourne with her friends, who still have company cars and six-figure salaries, or with her mother, Blanche, who has remarried too soon after her father's death.

'However, it turns out that Burdekin's Gap is a little more remote than Jaime had anticipated, the house is in the middle of a cattle station, and the handsome manager, Stirling McEvoy, doesn't appreciate a new farmhand in Jimmy Choos and Sass & Bide cut-offs.

'Soon Jaime is fending off stampeding cows, town ladies wielding clipboards, sheep who think they are goats, nude sportsmen and one very neurotic cat. So why does she feel like she's falling in love . . . with the life, with the breathtaking landscape, and with one infuriating cowboy …? (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • North Sydney, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Random House , 2012 .
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      Extent: 112p.
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      • Published: 03/12/2012
      ISBN: 9781742758237
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Works about this Work

Margareta Osborn – Author Interview 2012 single work interview
— Appears in: The Australian Literature Review , July 2012;
Margareta Osborn – Author Interview 2012 single work interview
— Appears in: The Australian Literature Review , July 2012;
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