Summer in New Orleans means hot days, long nights, spooky stories and surprising new beginnings. Felicity Bell has struggled to move on after her marriage broke down. Her ex has found love again, her children have their own lives, and it’s beginning to feel like her only comfort comes from her dog and her jobContinue reading “Review: How to Mend a Broken Heart (Rachael Johns)”
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Review: ‘Sisters of Freedom’ by Mary-Anne O’Connor
Australia’s queen of historical romance Mary-Anne O’Connor has done it again.
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.
Victoria Brookman 