Release day: Paperbark Hill

Today is the official release of Paperbark Hill by Maya Linnell (paperback, ebook, audio; Allen & Unwin). Here’s the blurb:

A pitch-perfect rural romance from the bestselling author of Magpie’s Bend – out in all good book shops today.

Diana McIntyre and her four boys have had a tough eighteen months but with the love and support of her family, she believes their lives are finally back on track. Diana’s dream of starting a flower farm has been the perfect diversion, with an elderly dahlia expert showing her the ropes. She won’t have to do this alone.

Locum pharmacist and single dad Ned Gardiner hasn’t called Victoria home for years. However, his father’s death forces Ned to return to the family farm, a place that holds few happy memories for him. Dealing with his estranged mother and sorting his father’s affairs, he plans on leaving as soon as possible, but what will it take for Ned to put down roots?

With six children between them, can this pair juggle families, farms and an unlooked-for romance?

Maya dropped by today to tell us a little about this book:

As a lifelong gardener, it was a treat to set Paperbark Hill around a micro-flower farm. If you’ve read my three previous novels—the ARRA shortlisted Magpie’s Bend, Bottlebrush Creek and Wildflower Ridge—you’ve probably come to expect a little gardening, a lot of baking and a cast of cheerful country characters. Paperbark Hill delivers more of the things you love, with Diana McIntyre starting her own dahlia and rose farm in the fictional town of Bridgefield. There’s also a new romance on the cards as locum pharmacist Ned Gardiner arrives in town to sort out a free-range egg farm. I hope you’ll enjoy the fourth and final instalment in the McIntyre sisters’ books, out today with Allen & Unwin in paperback, ebook and audio.

You can find out more about this book at Maya’s website or buy it from here.