Outback Rainbow

by Dorothy Cork

mass market paperbound book

Genres: Australia, Harlequin Romance, Romance

188 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1978

About the author

As an author for Mills and Boon and later for Harlequin Romance, Dorothy Cork wrote 38 romance novels. She was born in 1918 and is still alive. Her first book was published in 1965 and the last in 1985.

Quite a number of her books have been translated into a diversity of languages: Japanese, Greek, Italian, French and so on.

She also wrote a number of short stories - about half of which were published in various Australian magazines.

Reviews

[Leona · Rating 2 out of 5]

Kind of in-between 2 and a 3......

Hero was portrayed as somewhat of a "lech" in the beginning, ogling anything in a skirt. I couldn't shake off that image.

I actually enjoy this author's work and her depictions of the outback. However, Amanda Doyle still remains my favorite author when it comes to the Australian Outback and vintage Harlequins.

[Last Chance Saloon · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you like persistent heroes determined to catch their heroines, this is one for you. The heroine (19), is rather mixed up from being an orphan, being in a foster home and then a boarding school, but with a really good heart. The hero is her friend's half-brother, the owner of a station in the outback (mid-30s). He starts off viewing her for her looks, but is soon smitten, and ensures that she doesn't leave or get with either of the two OM (one a friend from her foster days who works for the hero and the other her new guardian). There is a want-to-be OW who is the heroine's friend from foster days (and the OM's sister).
I enjoyed the dynamic, the plot and the setting very much.

[أجمل زهرة · Rating 1 out of 5]

What a boring book I lost two days to read it!
There wasn't any love between Nicky and Jarratt, and their relationship was silly, boring and unromantic.
Most of the story Nicky was searching for her lost love Howerd While Jarratt was just a man without any special qualities and character.
They didn't even meet a lot. At the end I didn't know how they fell in love and when during this story.

[abbi · Rating 3 out of 5]

usually i advise against marrying controlling men you’ve only known for two weeks but if it’s at the coochin brimbrim ranch in the austrailian outback then by all means

[Naksed · Rating 3 out of 5]

A very slow, slow-burn romance in the Outback between a young, fragile, romantic woman just out of boarding school and the much older, rugged and kind of rough-around-the-edges rancher who is hosting her at his ranch. The heroine is an orphan who was raised in various foster homes, called “parent cottages” in the Australian vernacular of yesteryear. At 14, she was sent to a posh boarding school in Adelaide by her guardian, a kind old man who was a friend of her father and came into some money mining for opals, which he spent on his ward. Although she did her best to blend in with her hoity-toity new acquaintances, the heroine never forgot her humble beginnings or her two best friends, a brother and sister. When she graduates from boarding school and comes into some money and a measure of independence after the death of her guardian, she sets out in the outback to track them down. This is where she meets the hero and ends up staying at his ranch. Soon, she has to choose between her romantic dreams of the past or her very real present. It was a pleasant romance in the vintage style of the 1970s and was a nice way to spend the afternoon. The real
Love story seems however to be the author’s romantic description of the Outback. Very nicely done overall.

[StMargarets · Rating 3 out of 5]

Heroine's search for her foster family leads her to the hero, station owner in the Outback.

Heroine has been an orphan for years. Her guardian, a rough and ready opal hunter, saved up enough money for her to go to a fancy boarding school. Heroine accepted her fate with the rich folks, but always longed for her foster family. After her guardian dies, leaving her a fortune (and a new guardian) our 19 year-old heroine has the ways and means t0 search.

There are many coincidences in this story - the main one is that the heroine's foster family are working for the hero. Then the misunderstandings arise: hero thinks the heroine is in love with her foster brother. Heroine thinks hero is in love with her foster sister.

Even after hero proposes marriage, heroine thinks she should leave the field clear for her foster sister. It's beyond ridiculous, but heroine is very immature. It's just as well she's going to be tucked away in the back of beyond with the hero. He means well - unlike the new guardian or the foster brother.