Paula Xiberras
Author Trish Morey has been actively involved in Tasmania, literally! In her several visits she engaged in some rowing and she and her husband also cycled through Launceston. Trish says she loves Tassie!
It is love of the romantic kind that is the theme of her book ‘Cherry Season’.
Trish Morey’s novel is a slightly different take on the rural romance novel. For one it’s about cherry farming and its plot might remind the reader of ‘The Farmer Wants a Wife’, but let it be known a very different wife! This potential wife, while endearingly and refreshingly her own person, also demonstrates she is very real, has flaws and can make mistakes.
Dan, the cherry farmer in question is committed to his work but wanting to settle down with partner to support him on the farm. His family agree and so his sisters step in and sign him up to a dating site with comedic results in some of the matches he is set up with but it seems fate rather than family will play a hand in by bringing the lovely Lucy Marino to the farm in search of some seasonal work. While Dan is organised, Lucy doesn’t plan and is happy to let life take her where it will.
The book has some humour, even in the telling of a small disaster that occurs in the caravan and an even darker humour in linking some sadly deceased birds and the new cherry crop.
Although Trish writes rural romance and acknowledges the growing popularity of the genre she still enjoys writing a little bit of fantasy romance which involves her heroines being whisked off to romantic locations by princes or sheiks! Trish believes the increasing popularity of rural romance is due to people wanting to reclaim in some way their links with Australia’s heritage.
‘Cherry Season’ is out now published by Pan Macmillan Australia.
