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A Bush Christmas Kindle Edition

by Margareta Osborn (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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A gloriously funny and hopelessly romantic Christmas novella set in the beautiful Australia bush of East Gippsland from one of the stars of the rural genre.

A Bush Christmas was a no.1 ebook bestseller on its release. Due to popular demand, Margareta has now adapted it into a full-length novel titled Rose River - available in March!

Jaime Hanrahan does not want anything to do Christmas this year.

She’s just been retrenched, and if that wasn’t bad enough, this is her first Christmas without her beloved father Jack, who died last Boxing Day.

Determined not to spend it with her mother, who has already remarried, and her friends, who still have six-figure jobs, she jumps at the chance to house-sit a mansion in rural Burdekin's Gap.

Two problems.

Number one, the property comes with a handsome station manager, Stirling McEvoy, who doesn’t take kindly to a city chick destroying his peace. Especially when she needs rescuing from stampeding cattle, falling Christmas trees and town ladies wielding catering lists and tablecloths.

And two, in Burdekin's Gap there’s no chance of escaping the festive season. For the town has its own unique way of celebrating Christmas – big time, BUSH style!

Length: 131 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
Page Flip: Enabled	Language: English

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Product details

ASIN : B009OWPEOW
Publisher : Random House Australia (3 December 2012)
Language : English
File size : 985 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 131 pages

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Barbara Evans

A Bush Christmas

Reviewed in Australia on 17 June 2014

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It is like all the other books that I have read it is a wonderful book to read, I also couldn't put it down.

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Beverley K

Loved Mountain Ash and loved this one even more

Reviewed in Australia on 29 November 2014

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Loved Mountain Ash and loved this one even more. The hero was lovely and once you found out why she was the way she was it al made sense.

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shirleyusher

Five Stars

Reviewed in Australia on 9 March 2015

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good

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sylvia giri

Five Stars

Reviewed in Australia on 22 August 2014

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loved it

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Ingrid Borgert

I have only read 25% and find it is so ...

Reviewed in Australia on 29 March 2015

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I have only read 25% and find it is so far the exactly the same story as Rose River. hope it becomes its own story soon

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LEE FRANCES WHITE

but still a good read.

Reviewed in Australia on 21 May 2015

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It was ok but a bit obvious as to what was going to happen, but still a good read.

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Wendy J Reed

Nice romantic story line

Reviewed in Australia on 8 March 2015

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It was okay. Nice romantic story line. Not altogether believable, as I lived on a farm for 55 years.

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Mick M

It's an OK read!

Reviewed in Australia on 18 February 2015

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It's an OK read!

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Ms Jacqueline P Cain

Does what it says on the tin!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 January 2013

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Yes, you want to slap the heroine occasionally. But it delivers what it promised and it is charming and happy.

Sharyn Connor

Light-hearted read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 January 2014

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A fun light-hearted read that tackles some harder issues along the way. City meets country and with Margareta's descriptions you can feel the exasperation and naivety =)

S. Roddom

a wonderfully funny and romantic Christmas rural romance

Reviewed in the United States on 24 January 2014

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Opening lines: ‘…There were three things in life Jaime Josephina Hanrahan couldn’t stand. Her name, public transport and musclebound men riding Harley-Davidsons. She couldn’t do much about the first, unfortunately. And the last two were currently in her line of vision.…’
You have a fair idea that you are going to enjoy a book when a non-romance reading friend of yours recommends it. She was right, I really enjoyed A BUSH CHRISTMAS.

Jaime is heading into the East Gippsland highlands region of the Australian to avoid Christmas. She has just been retrenched, it is her first Christmas without her beloved father and her mother has gone off her rocker (Jaime’s opinion) and remarried a man who is the complete opposite to her father in every way. She is not happy. Jaime accepts a job housesitting in the remote bush as she is sure it will be easy to avoid Christmas.

She soon finds out that Christmas is everywhere, and her near neighbour, the musclebound man who was riding the Harley, is decorating the property from top to bottom. Station Manager, Stirling McEvoy, does not like city girls and he is not impressed with Jaime, and he can’t understand how anyone can hate Christmas so much. Firstly he thought that Jaime was going to be a male and help run the property while the owner is away. And secondly she is pretty little bombshell with clothes more appropriate for the beach than a working. But Jaime is a tough little cookie and not one to stay away from hard work. She takes everything that Stirling throws at her including manually separating the cattle, and holding the spotlight while he shoots rabbits despite the fact she believes he is murdering all the little Thumpers in cold blood. I can actually relate to this one, any years ago spending a weekend on a NSW bush property with an ex-boyfriend’s mate who took us spotlighting for kangaroo. I thought that we were looking for them just so they could show me them, I didn’t realise the spotlight caused them to freeze on the spot so they were easy to shoot! I kept turning the spotlights off at the last minute until seething with rage the property owner drove me back to the station and made me get out while the boys all went off without me. I now understand that this was not an idle sport for the property owner – but the knowledge came too late and my name was mud! Getting back to Jaime, she even rises to the challenge when the local ladies steamroll her into promising to cook umpteen sponge cakes when she can’t so much as successfully cook a packet mix! Christmas day dawns with Jaime’s mother and husband along with everyone from miles around descending onto the property to celebrate Christmas. What is a girl who hates Christmas to do?

A BUSH CHRISTMAS is a wonderfully funny and romantic Christmas rural romance. A quick and easy read that shows that you don’t have to have snow to let the magic of Christmas get working and for two lonely people find a common ground for love to grow.

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KeFeuerstein

I liked this novella

Reviewed in the United States on 22 December 2013

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That is until the abrupt ending. It is too bad that the story wasn't developed more, but it was still a decent read. My criticism is the same as with all of the Aussie stories, there should be explanations at the end where one could look up unfamiliar words and phrases. Since this book is marketed in the US it would make reading Aussie stories easier and help understand another culture. I've visited Australia twice, the first time driving with my husband from Cairns to Sydney. I loved the place at first sight.

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Gecko Book Girl

Wish it was longer

Reviewed in the United States on 17 February 2013

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This great Novella from Margareta is a fun read with Jamie trying to escape christmas by taking a house (and cat) sitting job in the bush but find there are some things you just can't escape from, and that's not always a bad thing.
My only sad point was that this was only a Novella and not a full length novel. If you haven't read Margareta's books (her new one is out in March 2013) this is a great introduction to a great aussie author

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