One Friday in Sunflower: The Country Crush Collection

By Jenn J. McLeod

Are you ready to fall in love? Pour a cuppa and come home to the country with these five short stories from Australia's small-town storyteller and bestselling author of House for all Seasons and the Calingarry Crossing Collection. Like all Jenn's full-length novels, these compact reads with a backdrop of country life have characters to surprise and delight country lovers.

 

One Friday in Sunflower

 

Swept Away

Life's special moments usually flash before a person's eyes moments before death. Reporter, Sally O'Neill, sees a headline: Washed Up Before She's Even Begun!

A Penny for your Thoughts

The coin will decide for him. Heads, he'll do it without delay. Tails, it can wait.

Geronimo

Grayce was thirty-eight when she jumped, but with nothing much to say. 
Quick was easy. Brief was best. A single word more than enough.

The Male Run

Dr Ellie Porter doesn't know 'a male run' is what she needs until the day her sister gives her one.

Some Days are Diamonds

She's on her way to the fortieth floor to say yes—to a marriage proposal and a penthouse apartment in Paris—when a city-wide power outage traps her in an elevator with country lad, Mack Pratt.

 

(Also in the series as an ebook: That Time in Tanglewood, with all ten stories available in a PRINT edition: Country Crush ISBN: 978-0-6485708-4-4 ).

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wild Myrtle Press
• Release date: Apr 11, 2021
• ISBN: 9780648570868

Jenn J. McLeod

Five times published (with Simon & Schuster and the UK’s Head of Zeus) Jenn’s first book, House for all Seasons, was the #5 best-selling debut fiction novel in 2013. Two years later she downsized her life, packed everything she owned into a purple and white caravan she calls Myrtle the Turtle, and is now Australia’s nomadic novelist. She says she’s planning to do “several big laps of Oz very slowly”, ticking things off her bucket list along the way, and finding inspiration for more heart-warming tales of friendship and family — contemporary stories with a backdrop of country life.

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