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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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

I really liked it. I thought the fact that Eleanor was so vain and arrogant just made her a rich, entitled fully formed character. I liked seeing WW2 through the eyes of an American living in Paris, a French policeman, and the German outcast. I loved Bauer, haven’t we all made bargains with God…I reallyContinue reading “The Woman From Saint Germain”