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NOT JUST THE WIFE OF THE GENERAL MANAGER

Sally Warriner, Hardie Grant, $32.99

On documents she’s WOGM – Wife of the General Manager. In action, as her memoir reveals, she’s much, much more. Sally Warriner fell in love with a Top End, big-hat party animal. He had stock just about everywhere and a small plane. Unsurprisingly, the GM wasn’t the best husband or father. Never home. She did it all – not just managing, but bringing up their children and her stepsons, and caring for the community (half a nursing degree helped).

Okay, there were hitches. She reneged the night before the wedding and months later changed her mind; GM didn’t blink. And there was an incident with a knife, not to mention her lover’s plan to go forth and ‘help Africa’ (55 countries, Sally!) He vamoosed before

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