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The Country Girl Kindle Edition

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Bestselling Australian author Cathryn Hein returns with a moving and uplifting rural romance about facing hard truths and moving on in pursuit of life.

Can this love story find a new beginning?

After landing a major cookbook deal, star food blogger Tash Ranger swaps city life for the family farm. But Tash's homecoming is bittersweet, for now she can no longer avoid seeing her best friend Maddy, who was severely injured in a riding accident. No one knows that Maddy and Tash had a deep falling out and with every visit Tash must pretend to be the friend everyone believes her to be.

Patrick Lawson, Maddy's fiancé, battles despair and hope daily as Maddy lies imprisoned in her body. When Tash returns to Castlereagh Road with her joy and boundless appetite for life, he realises finally what his loved ones have been trying to tell him for months – that Maddy wouldn't want him to throw his life away. It's time to move on. But letting go is no easy feat.

Can these two friends step out of the shadow of Maddy's tragic life and accept love, or is the past forever destined to dictate their future?

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1 January 2018
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About the Author

Cathryn Hein is the bestselling author of eleven rural romance and romantic adventure novels, a Romance Writers of Australia Romantic Book of the Year finalist with Santa and the Saddler, and a regular Australian Romance Reader Awards finalist. Her novel Wayward Heart won the member's choice award for best cover at the 2016 Australian Romance Reader Awards. A South Australian country girl by birth, Cathryn loves nothing more than a rugged rural hero who's as good with his heart as he is with his hands, which is probably why she writes them! Her romances are warm and emotional, and feature themes that don't flinch from the tougher side of life but are often happily tempered by the antics of naughty animals. Her aim is to make you smile, sigh, and perhaps sniffle a little, but most of all feel wonderful. Cathryn currently lives at the base of the Blue Mountains in New South Wales with her partner of many years, Jim. When she's not writing, she plays golf (ineptly), cooks (well), and in football season barracks (rowdily) for her beloved Sydney Swans AFL team.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B072ZY8XZD
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mira (1 January 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1096 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 544 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1525270184

Best Sellers Rank: 11,760 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- 104 in Small Town Romance
- 165 in Western & Frontier Romance eBooks
- 188 in Western & Frontier Romance

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Cathryn Hein is a best-selling author of rural romance and romantic adventure novels, a Romance Writers of Australia Romantic Book of the Year finalist with SANTA AND THE SADDLER, and a regular Australian Romance Reader Awards finalist.

A South Australian country girl by birth, Cathryn loves nothing more than a rugged rural hero who’s as good with his heart as he is with his hands, which is probably why she writes them! Her romances are warm and emotional, and feature themes that don’t flinch from the tougher side of life but are often happily tempered by the antics of naughty animals. Her aim is to make you smile, sigh, and perhaps sniffle a little, but most of all feel wonderful.

Cathryn lives in Newcastle, Australia with her partner of many years, Jim. When she’s not writing, she plays golf (ineptly), cooks (well), and in football season barracks (rowdily) for her beloved Sydney Swans AFL team.

Score free access to Cathryn’s ever-expanding collection of smile-inducing romantic short stories by visiting cathrynhein.com.

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Jo-Ann

Beautifully written country love story

Reviewed in Australia on 1 January 2018

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Sad,funny but at the heart of it was a beautiful love story. I felt myself hoping that Mandy would get better but also hoping that Patrick and Tash would find each other. Your story was so descriptive I felt like I was at the footy with them. Life as they knew it was changed in the blink of an eye and it could happen to any of us.

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Kees2Review

A Book to Warm the Heart

Reviewed in Australia on 29 December 2017

Be sure to have the Kleenex nearby. A challenging, exhausting read that is at times a whirlwind of words and action very much like the heroine, Tash. Ms Hein opens this story with a heartbreakingly tender, beautifully intense scene that had me reaching for the tissues within the first few pages. The story features a tortured hero, torn between the permanently disabled woman he's committed to and the lively, up-and-coming, self-made star chef he's fallen in love with. Full of good, wholesome country characters, this is a read that will have you cheering Patrick and Tash on even while you feel desperately sorry for Maddy and her situation. Like Khan, the horse featured in the story, it gallops along in places before unexpectedly hurling the reader head on into a pool of mixed emotions, leaving them breathless. Don't miss the ride. ARC provided courtesy of NetGalley and HQN.

Reviewed in Australia on 30 January 2018

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Loved this book so romantic,tough on the feelings,my kind of reading,beautiful caring people,tough decisions and heartbreak,but all good in the end.

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Talking Books

Likeable moments....3 Stars

Reviewed in Australia on 17 December 2017

Tash and Patrick's characters had some likeable moments in a happily ever after story. A bit slow paced, however, there were some notable moments throughout the read that kept the pages turning.
Review copy received from Harlequin Australia via Netgalley

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Fay Crafter

Five Stars

Reviewed in Australia on 13 February 2018

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I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I will look for more of this authors work

Reviewed in Australia on 13 February 2018

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Absolutely loved it! Read it very fast as I couldn’t put it down!

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Veronica

perfect rural romance

Reviewed in Australia on 26 March 2018

As soon as I started reading The Country Girl my heart was breaking for Patrick and Maddy. Patrick and Maddy were engaged when Maddy suffers a tragic accident and is left unable to communicate.

Tash, a highly successful food blogger with a cookbook deal in the works, decides to return home to Castlereagh, her parent’s farm near Emu Springs, where she will film new episodes for her blog, Urban Ranger. The addition of a gardening spot by her cheeky Grandfather has her subscriber numbers skyrocketing. However this is only a temporary stop for Tash. She has big ideas for Urban Ranger and they don’t include staying at Castlereagh.

Old jealousies and tiffs threaten to arise when Tash returns home. However hard it may be Patrick needs to leave the past behind and move on with his life but a promise was made and Patrick is an honourable man.

Hein has created real characters with Maddy and Patrick. Maddy is strong and has a real sense of self, outgoing and fun she is a perfect balance for Patrick who is full of sorrow and grief, stuck in a time lock with no real future in sight. The road is never smooth with plenty of road bumps and misunderstandings which are cause for some very scary moments. Hein’s descriptions of the countryside and the supporting characters give a perfect sense of place and add to the ambience of the story.

The story is fun and the romance is a slow burn. Food and cooking feature prominently in this rural romance and the descriptions of Tash’s delicacies will have you wishing there really was a cookbook in the works.

Cathryn Hein combines her love of romance and her love of cooking to give her readers yet another unmissable rural romance story.

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Jo Seaton

Cathryn Hein, you have pulled a rabbit out of the hat!!!

Reviewed in Australia on 10 January 2018

Cathryn Hein has written another superb story. This is a book that you won’t want to put down. It has everything in it, it will make you laugh and cry.
This rural romance follows the characters of Tash Ranger and Patrick Lawson. Tash is The Urban Ranger Food Blogger. Patrick is her best friend’s fiancé.
Tash has moved home to her family’s farm and has moved into her grandfather’s old flat, she is renovating the flat and cooking up a storm for her blog using locally grown produce, she wrangles in her grandfather to help with her video blogs of growing your own produce. He is such a wonderful character that you will adore.
Patrick remains loyal to his fiancé and he is keeping his promise to be with her forever. When Maddie’s horse that injured her is given to Tash he does everything in his power to protect Tash from coming to the same fate as Maddie. Will Patrick see that there is more to life than sitting in a room with a fiancé that cannot communicate with him.
Tash needs to decide whether to stay in Emu Springs and follow her heart of leave and follow her dream.
Now one thing I have to say is where are all the recipes for all the wonderful meals that were cooked in this book, besides them making me salivate while reading. I so wanted to try making them. I was praying there was some at the back of the book but no.
Tash Ranger needs to release her cookbook. I am sure I am not the only one who reads this and wants the recipes.

Cathryn Hein, you have pulled a rabbit out of the hat!!!

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elicatu

The characters feelings

Reviewed in the United States on 14 March 2018

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I like the style the writer uses,it's a romantic and it hasn't got sexual descriptions you use the imgination ,that's the best thing when you read the whole story.

Kathy Keen

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United States on 12 February 2018

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I enjoyed reading this book