Diamonds in the mud and other stories

Plot

This is the complete collection of Joy Dettman's short stories. We meet an old coot in a rusty ute who picks up a hitchhiker, a neighbour reaches across the language divide to lend a helping hand, a grave digger might just have saved a young man's life, an exhausted farmer's wife lusts after a china cup, Granny Jordan is losing her marbles and an author is disturbed by rats under the floorboards.--Back cover.