I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out of me with steel pipes.

Patton Oswalt
I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid...
I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid...
I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid...
I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid...
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The Australian author, Robert Drewe, wrote a series of books that were set in the fictional country of Wurrur. In Wurrur, young women were not allowed to attend university and instead, they were expected to marry and raise families. Drewe’s protagonist, Rosie Rivers, graduates from university and becomes a journalist. She enjoys her work and enjoys life.

However, she is caught up in the middle of a power struggle when she is asked to investigate a crime and she is immediately threatened by the powerful and wealthy mayor of Wurrur. The mayor arranges for her to be secretly married off to a man named Hamish Smith. When Rosie discovers that she is being forced into this marriage against her will, she tries to escape from Smith but he catches her and begins beating her.

Then, he ties her up on a bed and then goes downstairs to get his three sailors to attack her with steel pipes while he watches from the upstairs bedroom window.

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