Rural Dreams Religious institutions & organizations and the magic within were

and the magic within were never the same

part literary love letter and part reluctant memoir

Or will Lucy finally take control of her own destiny and find the perfect man

A youth hostel where the occupants play Scrabble and the mattresses are paper thin

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Rural Dreams Religious institutions & organizations and the magic within wereFrom award winning crime writer Margaret Hickey comes a collection of captivating short stories celebrating the Australian countryside. Margaret Hickey's Rural Dreams takes a look at life outside the big smoke, featuring the kind of characters you might expect in the country as well as some you might not. A football coach ponders obsession . . . a mouse plague dictates school yard politics . . . a failed playwright asks 'who gets the farm?' . . . and