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Man Shy

by Valerie Parv

t was to be the start of a new life. For Alita, agreeing to run her friend Karen's farm secretarial agency in the Australian outback was the first step away from her past. She hoped to forget her regrettable marriage and perhaps find that not all men were brutish like her ex-husband, Steve. Yet as Karen's engagement party it was Alita's past experience that caused her to behave badly when she met Tagg Laskin. At least she'd never see him again, she told herself comfortingly. Then she learned that he owned the property, Mundoo Run, where she was to live and run the business!

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  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?