Australia’s queen of historical romance Mary-Anne O’Connor has done it again.
Tag Archives: Australian Literature
Review | ‘Grace Under Pressure’ by Tori Haschka
Show me a mum who claims she hasn’t, at some point while mothering in contemporary Australia, fantasised about how much easier life would be if she formed a commune with other mums… and I will show you a liar.
Review | The Valley of Lost Stories
Vanessa McCausland’s latest novel, The Valley of Lost Stories (HarperCollins, 2020), is a beautifully written story which takes place largely in a creepy abandoned mining town. Four women and their children are invited to the beautiful but remote Capertee Valley, west of the Blue Mountains. Once home to a burgeoning mining industry, now all thatContinue reading “Review | The Valley of Lost Stories”
Book Review | Lapse (Sarah Thornton)
Lapse (Text Publishing, 2019) is set in the sleepy country town of Katinga, where protagonist Clementine Jones is coaching the local AFL team while she wrestles with some dark, dark secrets from her shady past.
Review | Where Fortune Lies (Mary-Anne O’Connor)
Where Fortune Lies (HQ Fiction, 2020) is the fifth novel from Australian author Mary-Anne O’Connor, and tells the story of plucky migrants finding their way in rugged colonial Australia in the early 1880s.
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