TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pattrick,Jenny
TI  - Heartland
SN  - 9781775535850 :
U1  - NZ823.3 23
KW  - Ex-convicts
KW  - Fiction
KW  - New Zealand
KW  - Country life
KW  - New Zealand fiction
KW  - 21st century
KW  - local
N1  - Novel
N2  - "After a short stint in prison on trumped-up charges, the loveable simpleton Donny Mac returns to the house left to him by his grandfather in the small settlement of Manawa, in the shadow of Mt Ruapehu. Now inhabited by a handful of colourful locals, the once prosperous milling town is only bustling in the ski season when the out-of-towners arrive. Awaiting Donny's return is the drunken and pregnant Nightshade, who claims he is the father"--Back cover
ER  -