The Girl in Steel-Capped Boots

Name: The Girl in Steel-Capped Boots
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9781742758053
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By Loretta Hill

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The Girl in Steel-Capped Boots by Loretta Hill offers a vibrant glimpse into the world of construction on Australia's Pilbara region. It follows engineer Lena Todd as she navigates the male-dominated industry, dealing with both professional challenges and personal growth. The novel combines humour, romance, and a strong sense of place, exploring themes of resilience and finding one's path.
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The Girl in Steel-Capped Boots

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The Girl in Steel-Capped Boots by Loretta Hill is a bestselling debut that offers a delectable story of red dust, romance, and dreams discovered in the unlikeliest of places.

Lena Todd is a city girl who thrives on cocktails and cappuccinos. So when her boss announces he's sending her to the outback to join a construction team, her world is turned upside down. Lena's new accommodation will be an aluminium box called a dongar. Her new social network: 350 men. Her daily foot attire: steel-capped boots.

Unfortunately, Lena can't refuse. Mistakes of the past are choking her confidence. She needs to do something to right those wrongs and prove herself. Going into a remote community might just be the place to do that, if only tall, dark, and obnoxious Dan didn't seem so determined to stand in her way...

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781742758053

Publisher: Transworld Publishers (Division of Random House Australia)

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 August 2012

Country: Australia

Imprint: Bantam

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 294g

Pages: 368

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About the Author

Loretta always wanted to be a writer. As a kid she filled pages of exercise books with stories to amuse her friends. Her father, who never wasted his time on fiction, didn't see much worth in this pass time and pushed her to pursue a "sensible" career. Fortunately, she had inherited some of his talent for numbers and decided to give it a go. She graduated from the University of Western Australia as structural engineer and took her first job with a major West Australian engineering company. A few years later she met a lawyer at a Black Friday party hosted by a friend. She was dressed as the devil and he just came as himself. They are now happily married and living in Perth with their two young sons and infant daughter. Despite her career in engineering, her interest in law and her journey into motherhood, Loretta continued to write. Not because she had a lot of time but because it was and always had been an addiction she couldn't ignore. Her first novel (under the name Loretta Brabant) was a short romantic comedy called Kiss and Tell and was released in the USA in late 2009. The Girl in Steel-Capped Boots is her commercial women's fiction debut. Loretta drew upon