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Australian Novels

Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

September 23, 2018 By Kim Kingston

Burial Rites made me really glad I wasn’t a woman in northern Iceland in 1892. Unfortunately for Agnes Mognusdottir, she is. It is perpetually freezing and miserable in northern Iceland in 1892 and Agnes is condemned to be executed for her part in the murder of two men. The book details her final days, unwanted, living amongst […]

Filed Under: Australian Novels, General fiction

Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty

September 22, 2018 By Kim Kingston

Nine perfect strangers

Moriarty really gets women: “you never changed your appearance for men, you changed it for other women, because they were the ones carefully tracking each other’s weight and skin tone along with their own; they were the ones trapped with you on the ridiculous appearance obsession merry-go-round that they couldn’t or wouldn’t get off.” The […]

Filed Under: Australian Novels, General fiction

The Good Parents by Joan London

September 18, 2018 By Kim Kingston

London can make poetry out the simplest things: “They say very still as darkness filled the room.” It’s such a pleasure to read her prose that it hardly matters what the story is about. The Good Parents does, however, contain a compelling mystery: the disappearance of eighteen year old country girl Maya, whose parents find her gone when […]

Filed Under: Australian Novels, General fiction, Thriller

The Book Thief by Markus Zusack

September 18, 2018 By Kim Kingston

This is one of those books everybody else seems to love more than me. Sure it’s interesting to have a book narrated by Death and there’s a lot of interesting parts in it, but somehow it just doesn’t move me.  

Filed Under: Australian Novels, General fiction, Historical Fiction

The Hypnotist’s Love Story by Liane Moriarty

September 18, 2018 By Kim Kingston

Hypnotist Ellen O’Farrell’s new love interest has a stalker. She finds it  wildly interesting at first, but as times goes on it is less so, until she comes to fully understand the shocking damage stalking can do. At some point when reading this novel you will be shouting at Ellen’s new boyfriend to call the […]

Filed Under: Australian Novels, General fiction

The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty

September 18, 2018 By Kim Kingston

Wow, what a can of worms. This is number five of Moriarty’s stand alone novels, and she’s just so humane and so good. She splays open the minds of women with such a gentle, delicious touch. No one is totally evil and no one entirely good; they’re just doing the best they can. Well worth […]

Filed Under: Australian Novels, General fiction

What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty

September 18, 2018 By Kim Kingston

This is my favourite of Moriarty’s, along with Big Little Lies. Alice gets a bump on the head during gym class; when she comes to she has lost ten years of her life. Her brain has reset to when she was 29, in love with her husband, about to have their first child. In reality she is […]

Filed Under: Australian Novels, General fiction

The Light Between Oceans by ML Steadman

September 17, 2018 By Kim Kingston

This one is a book club favourite for a reason. The what would you do storyline is deeply manipulative, but makes for a good discussion if you find it believable. It’s all a bit overwrought for my liking.    

Filed Under: Australian Novels, General fiction

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