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If you only knew – a Book Club Review
If you only knew – Kristan Higgins
Summary
Letting go of her ex-husband is harder than wedding-dress designer Jenny Tate expected…especially since his new wife wants to be Jenny’s new best friend. Sensing this isn’t exactly helping her achieve closure, Jenny trades the Manhattan skyline for her hometown up the Hudson, where she’ll start her own business and bask in her sister Rachel’s picture-perfect family life…and maybe even find a little romance of her own with Leo, her downstairs neighbor, a guy who’s utterly irresistible and annoyingly distant at the same time. Rachel’s idyllic marriage, however, is imploding after she discovers her husband sexting with a colleague. She always thought she’d walk away in this situation, but her triplet daughters have her reconsidering her stance on adultery, much to Jenny’s surprise. Rachel points to their parents’ perfect marriage as a shining example of patience and forgiveness; but to protect her sister, Jenny may have to tarnish that memory-and their relationship–and reveal a family secret she’s been keeping since childhood. Both Rachel and Jenny will have to come to terms with the past and the present and find a way to get what they want most of all.
Comments
The book was a light, easy read with subtle humour that was well written. The scenes involving Leo and the triplets were very funny. We liked the way the writer alternated the first person narration between the sisters, Jenny and Rachel, allowing both sides of the story to be heard and to see how the same incident can be seen differently.
While some clubbers found it a little slow to start, not really grabbing their attention until almost 100 pages in, others loved it from the first word. As a group, we found it very easy to relate to both sisters and the dilemmas they faced.
Rating – 8/10 Read by – Cultcha Club Book Club
Head On 2016 Photo Exhibition
Parramatta Library presents Head On 2016 – a digital photo exhibition. Artists on display include Krishna Tummalapalli and Anna Katharina Zeitler, with a selection of prize winners from Head On 2015. The exhibition will be on display on the ground floor of Parramatta Library from 29 April to 22 May 2016 and on YouTube.
Vote for your favourite image for People’s Choice for a chance to win a $50 Coles Myer gift card by filling in an entry form in the Library or sending in your name, phone number, email address and photo code to parrareads@parracity.nsw.gov.au. One entry per person, entries close Sunday 22 May 2016.
2016 Miles Franklin Award Longlist Announced
The Miles Franklin Literary Award is Australia’s most prestigious literature prize. Established through the will of My Brilliant Career author, Miles Franklin, the prize is awarded each year to a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases.
First presented in 1957, the Award helps to support authors and to foster uniquely Australian literature. Miles Franklin believed that “Without an indigenous literature, people can remain alien in their own soil.” She also had first-hand experience of struggling to make a living as a writer and was the beneficiary of two literary prizes herself. A short biography and synopsis of each title in the longlist can be found here. Click on any title below to reserve your copy now.
Ghost River – Tony Birch
Coming Rain – Stephen Daisley
Hope Farm – Peggy Frew
Leap – Myfanwy Jones
The World Without Us – Mireille Juchau
The Hands: an Australian pastoral – Stephen Orr
Black Rock White City – A.S. Patric
Salt Creek – Lucy Treloar
The Natural Way Of Things – Charlotte Wood
Paper chains – a Book Club Review
Paper chains – Nicola Moriarty
Summary
A heart-warming story of love, friendship and forgiveness – and the crazy twists of fate that shape our lives…Hannah and India are new best friends. Although true friendship means always telling each other the truth, doesn’t it…? Hannah, you see, is running from her life back in Sydney. Now in London, she’s trying to put the past behind her, and finding this amazing new friend is a positive step forward. If only she could stop punishing herself for what she did. India knows Hannah is hiding something big, and she’s determined to figure it out. Fast. Because India has a secret of her own… One that is currently sealed in a love letter that’s making its journey across Europe in the most unconventional way. Before it reaches its destination, can India help Hannah learn to forgive herself? And will Hannah wake up and realise that India needs rescuing too …?
Comments
A story of two friends, hiding two very big secrets from each other. While India is helping Hannah, Hannah is unknowingly helping India, in turn, face her demons too.
A great, easy, holiday break read. Another believable plot with well written characters that pull you in from the start. As a group, we all related to Hannah’s story. We found it a very realistic, honest, thought-provoking storyline that we could all relate to on some level. Another writer that, for us, writes everyday, suburban Australia extremely well, without cliches and kitsch.
Rating – 8/10 Read by – Cultcha Club Book Club