Authors: Lynne Wilding
To my literary agent, Selwa Anthony. My editors Emma Kelso and Sara Foster.
The Hub of the Flinders
by Hans Mincham.
Speak to the Earth
by Elyne Mitchell.
Australia’s Yesterdays: A Look at Our Recent Past
by Reader’s Digest.
Outback
magazine.
Serving the Country: The History of the Country Women’s Association of New South Wales
by Helen Townsend.
Yield Not to the Wind
by Margaret Clarence. Captain Richard Osborne (retired). Sister Mabel Pasfield (retired). John Gumbley. Maike Enghardt.
Lynne Wilding published eight previous novels with HarperCollins:
King of Cane Valley
,
Heart of the Outback
,
Whispers Through the Pines
,
Turn Left at Bindi Creek
,
This Time Forever
,
52 Waratah Avenue
,
Outback Sunset
and
Sundown Crossing
.
A
LSO BY
L
YNNE
W
ILDING AND AVAILABLE FROM
H
ARPER
C
OLLINS
:
Heart of the Outback
Whispers Through the Pines
Turn Left at Bindi Creek
This Time Forever
52 Waratah Avenue
Love, Obsessions, Secrets and Lies:
An Anthology
(contributor)
King of Cane Valley
Outback Sunset
Sundown Crossing
HarperCollins
Publishers
First published in Australia in 2007
This edition published 2010
by HarperCollins
Publishers
Australia Pty Limited
ABN 36 009 913 517
www.harpercollins.com.au
Copyright © Lynne Wilding 2007
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Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000
.
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, no part may be reproduced, copied, scanned, stored in a retrieval system, recorded, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:
Wilding, Lynne.
Amy’s touch.
ISBN 13: 978 0 7322 8563 0(pbk.)
ISBN 10: 0 7322 8563 1(pbk)
ISBN: 978 0 7304 4401 5 (epub)
1. 1. Man–woman relationships – Fiction.
2. 2. Country life – Australia – Fiction.
I.Title.
A823.3
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