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The Country Wife

Anne Gorman

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English
Bantam
02 March 2015
A young city girl turned bush wife finds love and the courage to fight her own battles in an alien landscape in this powerful and moving Australian memoir.

After thirteen pregnancies, the death of two children and the struggle to support her family during the Great Depression, Anne Gorman's devout Catholic mother has a breakdown. After smashing a statue of the Virgin Mary, her treatment is to be locked up and given shock treatment.
Six-year-old Anne and her sisters are placed in a convent where they wait in vain to be rescued by their parents.  Anne doesn't see her beloved father again until years later when he is dying. Anne's determination to escape her mother's fate fires her ambition for a better life. Education is her passport to freedom and after graduating from university, she's ready to take on the world. But her plans come unstuck when she falls in love.

Marrying a farmer and becoming a mother of five children is a life she never imagined. Yet in this alien landscape she finds love and a sense of belonging. But when Anne's beloved husband becomes suddenly gravely ill, she has to find the strength to fight to keep the property afloat and bring up her children alone. 

From the fallout of the Second World War to Vietnam and the sexual and political revolutions of the 1960s and 1970s, an uncertain young girl grows into an woman of substance.

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Imprint:   Bantam
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 233mm,  Width: 154mm,  Spine: 24mm
Weight:   440g
ISBN:   9780857985064
ISBN 10:   085798506X
Pages:   336
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Anne Gorman was born in Mudgee, the eleventh child in her family. After graduating from Sydney University with a BA and a post graduate degree in Medical Social Work, she married a farmer and moved to a sheep and wheat property in the Riverina. When her husband became gravely ill, Anne had to battle to care for him while keeping the property afloat and bringing up five children alone. After his tragic death, Anne threw herself into what was to become a long and successful professional career. She served as Director of the NSW Government's program for the reform of children's services under the Wran Administration and was Head of the Australian Government's task force for International Year of the Child to the United Nations. In 2003 in association with an American partner she established The Institute of Executive Coaching. Her clients included Telstra, BHP, ANZ and state and federal government departments. This is her first book.Anne Gorman was born in Mudgee, the eleventh child in her family. After graduating from Sydney University with a BA and a post graduate degree in Medical Social Work, she married a farmer and moved to a sheep and wheat property in the Riverina. When her husband became gravely ill, Anne had to battle to care for him while keeping the property afloat and bringing up five children alone. After his tragic death, Anne threw herself into what was to become a long and successful professional career. She served as Director of the NSW Government's program for the reform of children's services under the Wran Administration and was Head of the Australian Government's task force for International Year of the Child to the United Nations. In 2003 in association with an American partner she established The Institute of Executive Coaching. Her clients included Telstra, BHP, ANZ and state and federal government departments. This is her first book.

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