Rural Dreams

From 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 a young woman returns to her fire-ravaged town.

People we know. People we grew up with. Some of them might even be us…

Funny, heartbreaking and true, Rural Dreams highlights the richness of life on the land and showcases the beauty of lives lived outside city walls.