This is a story of love and connection – and what happens when for various reasons, such as trauma, abuse, lies or lack of communication, that connection is lost or you feel unworthy of love.
Workaholic Addy returns to her home town of Rookery Cove on Tasmania’s north-west coast chasing a work promotion and doing up her late parents’ home to turn into a holiday rental. But her return stirs up ghosts she has tried to bury with alcohol and sex. Steph and husband, Henry, relocate to Rookery Cove after a blissful holiday, hoping for a less stressful life and new possibilities. But the dream is not matching reality. Since husband, Glen, died, Brenda is trying to repair her rocky relationship with daughter, Courtney. But Brenda is hiding a big secret that will blow her world apart if it ever comes out.
The three women are drawn together by the local choir. After a spectacular betrayal with far-reaching consequences, it is music and friendship that helps them face up to the choices that have shaped their lives, for better and worse. This is an absorbing read about issues many of us can relate to, peopled by characters who feel like real-life friends.
Reviewed by Melinda Woledge
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Fiona Lowe has been a midwife, a sexual health counsellor and a family support worker; an ideal career for an author who writes novels about family and relationships. She spent her early years in Papua New Guinea, where without television, reading was the entertainment and it set up a lifelong love of books. One of her first teenage rebellions was refusing to go on a hike with her parents because she was half way through Gone With the Wind. As an adult, Fiona read her way around the world always trying to read a book that related to where she was at the time; the Brontes in Yorkshire, Jane Austen in Bath, The Godfather in Italy, Michener in Hawaii…and so the list goes on.
Although she often re-wrote the endings of books in her head, it was the birth of her first child that prompted her to write her first novel. A recipient of the prestigious USA RITA® award and the Australian RuBY award, Fiona’s books are set in small country towns and feature real people facing tough choices and explore how family ties impact on their decisions.
When she’s not writing stories, she’s a distracted wife, mother of two ‘ginger’ sons, a volunteer in her community, guardian of 80 rose bushes, slave to a cat and is often found collapsed on the couch with wine.
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