Set over ten tumultuous months in 1945, The Woolgrower's Companion is the gripping story of one woman's fight against all odds, and a sweeping tribute to Australia's landscape and its people.
Joy Rhoades was born in Roma in western Queensland, with an early
memory of flat country and a broad sky. Growing up, she loved two
things best- reading and the bush, whether playing in creek beds
and paddocks, or climbing a tree to sit with a book. Her family
would visit her grandmother, a fifth generation grazier and a
gentle teller of stories of her life on her family's sheep
farm.
At 13, Joy left Roma for Brisbane, first for school and then to
study law at university. After graduating, she worked all over-
first Sydney, then London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo and New
York. It was in New York that she completed a Masters in Creative
Writing at the New School University, and wrote much of The
Woolgrower's Companion, a novel inspired in part by snippets of her
grandmother's life and times.
She now lives in London with her husband and their two young
children, but she misses the Australian sky.
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