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    The Hired Man

    By Lynna Banning

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    A home for the drifter... 

    Cordell Winterman is haunted by his mistakes. Broke and hungry, he takes a job as a hired man on Eleanor Malloy's farm.

    Eleanor needs help. Her kids are running wild and the place is held up by spit and rust. But as Cord helps set her home to rights, Eleanor realises that she doesn't just need this enigmatic drifter…she wants him too!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers Australia
    Release dateNov 1, 2017
    ISBN9781489249609
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    The Hired Man
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    Lynna Banning

    Lynna Banning combines a lifelong love of history and literature into a satisfying career as a writer. In the past she has worked as an editor and technical writer, and has taught English and journalism. An amateur pianist and harpsichordist, Lynna performs on psaltery, harp, and recorders with two medieval music groups and coaches ensembles in her spare time. She lives in Felton, in the Santa Cruz Mountains, with two cats and a very nervous canary.

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