Sue Watson Wife, Mother, Liar Bookature, January 2025 Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. Sue Watson has combined a narrative of mysteries and twists with the development of relationships over almost twenty-five years of neighbourly friendships. There is also clever characterisation, provided though two friends’ recall of the past,Continue reading “Week beginning March 19, 2025”
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Week beginning 31 July 2024
Lisa Jackson Our Little Secret Kensington Publishing, June 2024. Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with this uncorrected proof for review. I found this an extremely disappointing read that prolonged my frustration through repetition and a fairly predictable story line that meandered through family angst, infidelity, missing teenagers, the main character’s internal arguments, and obsession.Continue reading “Week beginning 31 July 2024”
Week beginning 21 October
Television Comments: Searching for an Australian Identity, Robin Joyce; A Country Podcast, September 18, including interview with Margaret Morgan. Book Reviews: The Wife, Meg Wolitzer; The Sister in Law, Sue Watson; The Glass Castle, Jeanette Walls. New Zealand and ACT elections. Labour/Labor successes, in New Zealand, resoundingly so. This success is being seen as aContinue reading “Week beginning 21 October”