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Simon & Schuster
September 2012
On Sale: September 4, 2012
304 pages
ISBN: 1451678177
EAN: 9781451678178
Kindle: B0061Q5PO8
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Women's Fiction Contemporary
Set in the Australian outback, a wryly funny, beautifully observed novel about friendship, motherhood, love, and the importance of fighting for things that matter. Loretta Boskovic never dreamed she would end up a single mother with two kids in a dusty Australian country town. She never imagined sheβd have to campaign to save the local primary school. She certainly had no idea her best friend would turn out to be the crusty old junk man. All in all, sheβs starting to wonder if she took a wrong turn somewhere. If only she could drop the kids at the orphanage and start over... But now, thanks to her protest letters, the Education Minister is coming to Gunapan, and she has to convince him to change his mind about the school closure. And as if facing down the government isnβt enough, it soon becomes clear that the school isnβt the only local spot in trouble. In the drought stricken bushland on the outskirts of town, a luxury resort development is about to siphon off a newly discovered springwater supply. No one seems to know anything, no one seems to care. With a dream lover on a Harley unlikely to appear out of nowhere to save the day, Loretta needs to stir the citizens of Gunapan to action. She may be short of money, influence, and a fully functioning car, but she has good friends. Together they can organize chocolate drives, supermarket sausage sizzles, a tour of the abattoirβwhatever it takes to hold on to the scrap of world that is home. A delightful novel for fans of Jennifer Weiner, Fannie Flagg, and Maeve Binchy, The Fine Color of Rust is a wonderful reminder that sometimes it really does take a villageβand a healthy dose of humorβto change the world.
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