β Scribed by Engwerda, Robert
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Remote Australia, 1916. Stella Winterson wants nothing more than to be with Jasper Reynolds but she is thwarted by her fatherβs tyrannical rule. When her father banishes her to an isolated guest house without Jasper knowing, the young man recklessly enlists to fight in the Great War, Stella devastated when she hears of it. β©As punishment for what her father sees as her continuing rebellion, on her return home he sends her to care for elderly Annie Underwood. But the relationship between the two women blossoms and helps Stella find the courage to pursue her own ambitions and contact with Jasper.β©But warβs truths are brutal and the 1917 conscription referendum divides the nation as never before. In the muddy wastelands of the Western Front Jasper is reported missing prompting his disgraced priest father to enlist and search for him in an act that will have tragic consequences for all. β©At her family property, Redlands, Stellaβs fatherβs opposition to the war worsens his standing in the district and results in a savage attack that leaves him barely alive. With the summer harvest looming the running of the property falls to Stella after she hears that Jasper has been discovered badly wounded in an English hospital. β©Refusing to be bowed by the tragic events around her, Stella takes charge of Redlands and her own fate. β©Harvest is an ultimately uplifting story of love and courage, and of finding the will to never give up on who and what you believe in.
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