I loved it! I loved Frank. I loved the escape and the road trip but I also really loved the eating of scones and vanilla slices with the sun warming your back and nowhere to be. For me this is absolutely the definition of life lit. I loved that Shirley and Frank weren’t just oldies,Continue reading “The Secret Life Of Shirley Sullivan”
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The Girl He Used to Know
I wasn’t meant to read it. I was just meant to flick through. Then I dived on it. couldn’t put it down. I love first love and this was so sweet. The characteristics of Annika made it sweeter. I feel like I’ve walked in another’s shoes, or their bare feet even x I don’t wantContinue reading “The Girl He Used to Know”
Elsa Goody, Bushranger
I LOVED having a new Darry Fraser to read! I love Australian colonial fiction, so I knew I would love this novel even before I started it and I was right. I loved the feisty, independent, opionated Elsa.. she is such a strong, determined protagonist for the novel. I want my niece to read itContinue reading “Elsa Goody, Bushranger”
The Deceptions
What a deception. It’s true, it is an absolutely compelling story. I got so much out of it. For me it’s that you can be deceptive, to yourself as much as everybody else but the lies are still there. It’s a busy story, there are multiple characters and storylines but I found it so easyContinue reading “The Deceptions”
The Bar Habor Retirement Home for Famous Writers
This is a lovely story. A book full of troubled and damaged people who you just love. The novel centers around a beautiful retirement home that I want to live in right now, it’s gorgeous reading. It’s such a whimsical, beautiful book. Themes of love and forgiveness feature so significantly, so does mortality and acceptance.Continue reading “The Bar Habor Retirement Home for Famous Writers”
The Hunted
That. Was. Petrifying. Thrillers aren’t my bag. This book is so removed far from my genre. I had to put it down constantly! I don’t like being scared, let alone fearful. Oh my goodness, that was scary! But bloody hell, if you do like thrillers this is such a thriller! I was so worried forContinue reading “The Hunted”
Who We Were
2 Show more Review I’m so not a thriller reader, so I was scared to start reading my ARC, but this was perfect for me. It’s definitely more character based domestic noir than bloody and violent. The storyline was so interesting. 17 year olds can so self centred, obnoxious and casually cruel in ways a 37Continue reading “Who We Were”
All Our Shimmering Skies
What an epic quest. So different from what I was expecting. So much more than what I was expecting. Beautiful girls doing unbelievable things. It is such evocative language “knobs turning, doors opening, cupboards slamming shut…”. Such beautiful messages “I think we’re supposed to to find ourselves things to etch”; a world where gold rotsContinue reading “All Our Shimmering Skies”
The Drover’s Wife
I don’t understand the indifferent reviews. I thought it was brilliant. I think it makes such a compelling statement on our national identity. There were definitely times when I felt chills. I thought it was a powerful story that really describes what could have been. For me the plot and narrative was tight. I thoughtContinue reading “The Drover’s Wife”
Lady in Waiting
This was such a great iso escape for me. What a difference world! Lady Anne Glenconner has shown me a life where ‘she tried her hardest to be a boy’, one in which ‘she didn’t think to question’, where the qualities of her children’s childhoods where unashamedly down to the right nanny ‘which made allContinue reading “Lady in Waiting”
