The Farmer’s Wife

The Farmer’s Wife
Rachael Treasure

A beautiful and moving tale of self-discovery, The Farmer’s Wife deals with the truth about relationships that the Cinderella stories never tell us.She got the fairytale ending – but that was just the beginning…When Rebecca Saunders married her party boy Charlie Lewis and they settled down on her beloved farm, she thought the hard work was over. Ten years and two kids later, the idyllic future she imagined seems like a distant fantasy.Her life is a never-ending cycle of running the household and bringing up two small children. There’s little time to keep the romance alive, and when Rebecca and Charlie are faced with money troubles, they have very different ideas about how to save the farm.Rebecca is starting to wonder if she ever really knew Charlie – or even herself. Is it too late to rekindle their love? Can they find their way back to one another or has the gulf become too wide?

The Farmer’s Wife

by RACHAEL TREASURE

For Luella Meaburn, my true earth angel

and Colin Seis, a quiet grassroots revolutionary

and my children and my guides, Rosie and Charlie Treasure

and in memory of Dreams, now in the clouds with Pegasus

An environmentalist once asked a wise guru, ‘What use is your praying and meditating when you are not really doing anything to stop the destruction all around us?’

The guru replied calmly, ‘Even if you managed to clean up the rivers, oceans, soils and the sky, the pollution will all come back, unless you cleanse the human heart.’

Retold by Bhavani Prakash

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow; our life is the creation of our mind.

Buddha

The eternal feminine draws us upward.

Goethe

Table of Contents

Title Page (#u7c897caf-9bee-510c-8832-845f08a83307)

Dedication (#u756352b4-f0ea-5950-9fa6-ec56cce58fee)

Epigraph (#u90db5576-66a4-5ab3-b033-d36f10420227)

Part One (#uf86038a8-801a-59be-b529-bac01490d08c)

Chapter One (#u5fd74c9c-cb10-5fbd-8cc4-161d044796b6)

Chapter Two (#ufb279707-94a6-5c08-9ae6-56546af16b36)

Chapter Three (#ufa3ccc10-6103-5ce4-894e-1a75024b3815)

Chapter Four (#uf791796b-687e-533e-97dd-e01618c1a94d)

Chapter Five (#ue10c65a6-7605-5d26-99de-12a7d16e3ecc)

Chapter Six (#u938463f8-6678-5737-bf22-4d40a89ba6e5)

Chapter Seven (#u30c0e014-863a-57c3-bbd5-4714b8cb7c73)

Chapter Eight (#u0ee59838-17bf-52cc-af33-19a3baf6b4cb)

Chapter Nine (#u6a55653e-9817-564f-beab-8624e4ac059e)

Chapter Ten (#u998b6641-1aa7-5267-9b80-88997d47c4d4)

Chapter Eleven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twelve (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Two (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-one (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-two (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-three (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-four (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-five (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-six (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-seven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-eight (#litres_trial_promo)

Part Three (#litres_trial_promo)