Zoe's Muster
Barbara Hannay
Reviewed by Helen
Barbara Hannay is a magical story teller, I love her characters, you really get to know them and this one has been on my TBR pile for a long time and I am only sorry it took me so long to get to know Zoe in such a beautiful setting, and such a beautiful story.
Zoe Porter is a chef and at the moment is running a business doing fabulous high teas but is it really what she wants, Zoe seems to be the black sheep of the family her father Rex is a federal politician and her mother Claire a gifted musician and her sister Imogen a lawyer, so when Zoe discovers that Rex porter is not her biological father Zoe questions her mother and does some investigating and discovers that her father is Peter Fairburn and that she has a half- brother Luke and half- sister Bella, she also finds a job as camp-muster cook is available on the very cattle station, Mullinjim that her biological father owns.
Zoe applies and is given the job, when she arrives in the small town of Gidgee Springs it isn’t a Fairburn that picks her up but their grumpy neighbour Mac McKinnon who takes her to Mullinjim where she meets Luke and the ringers, life is good and soon Zoe is feeling very comfortable but her feelings for Mac are growing and there is a few problems with Luke, but the pressure is hard for Zoe to keep her mother’s promise of secrecy, especially when she meets Peter and his wife Virginia.
This is a beautifully told story where this secret could potentially destroy two families and the emotions run high in both families as things unfold, Zoe is such a wonderful heroine she shows strength and courage and her love for Mac is well deserved and Mac he has been through a lot and falling for a city girl was not in his plans but resisting Zoe is pointless, This is one that I would highly recommend, I loved it.
Zoe Porter is a chef and at the moment is running a business doing fabulous high teas but is it really what she wants, Zoe seems to be the black sheep of the family her father Rex is a federal politician and her mother Claire a gifted musician and her sister Imogen a lawyer, so when Zoe discovers that Rex porter is not her biological father Zoe questions her mother and does some investigating and discovers that her father is Peter Fairburn and that she has a half- brother Luke and half- sister Bella, she also finds a job as camp-muster cook is available on the very cattle station, Mullinjim that her biological father owns.
Zoe applies and is given the job, when she arrives in the small town of Gidgee Springs it isn’t a Fairburn that picks her up but their grumpy neighbour Mac McKinnon who takes her to Mullinjim where she meets Luke and the ringers, life is good and soon Zoe is feeling very comfortable but her feelings for Mac are growing and there is a few problems with Luke, but the pressure is hard for Zoe to keep her mother’s promise of secrecy, especially when she meets Peter and his wife Virginia.
This is a beautifully told story where this secret could potentially destroy two families and the emotions run high in both families as things unfold, Zoe is such a wonderful heroine she shows strength and courage and her love for Mac is well deserved and Mac he has been through a lot and falling for a city girl was not in his plans but resisting Zoe is pointless, This is one that I would highly recommend, I loved it.
5 stars
July 25, 2012 by Michael Joseph (Penguin Australia
