Fiona McArthur
Reviewed by Helen
Oh there were tears and heart-ache and then joy, pure joy and happiness that brought a huge sigh and smile, MS McArthur really knows how to pull a reader in with her real life characters, people that become friends, this story had the emotions flowing as we get to know desert midwife Ava and emergency doctor Zac and a cast of amazing characters that show strength, I hope you pick this book up because it is a must read.
Ava May has been born an bred in the outback desert, she comes from a family of strong woman and men, her mother and grandmother are nurses and Ava follows in their footsteps but becoming a midwife, she is very close to the indigenous people and their ways. When Ava is coming back from a flight from Sydney she meets Zac and there is no stopping the sensual feelings that leap between them and an affair begins but an accident stops things in their tracks.
Zac Logan is escaping to the outback for a while to get his head back in the right space after a tragedy has changed his life, looking or finding love is not on the cards for this Sydney man, but meeting Ava on the flight changes everything for him, he falls in love, who would have thought that love at first sight does happen not Zac, but when the accident happens with shattering outcome he struggles. Ava and her family ask him to stay and recuperate at the cattle station and he goes and becomes very close to this wonderful family, and helps with their problems.
The setting is amazing, the writing just beautiful, MS McArthur has shown us the struggles of the land and what drought does to families, the births in the outback and the needs of the indigenous people. Getting to know Ava's family her struggling brother Jock and his pregnant wife Hana, her mother Stella and grandmother Mim was fabulous, and of course Ava and Zac wow what a journey they have to a beautiful HEA the strength and courage shown had me cheering them on. This one is going to stay with me for a long time to come, thank you for another keeper, this is one that I highly recommend.
5 stars
Expected publication:
July 16th 2019
by Penguin Random House Australia
