Liz Byrski’s latest novel is another heartwarming, compelling story centred around friendship and love, loss, loneliness and growing old.
Mim is an independent, intelligent woman who has post-polio syndrome. In her late 70s she is struggling to manage her bookshop in Fremantle while coming to terms with her ailing health. Mathias is a shy, successful writer who has lost his wife and decides to sell his family home to settle in Perth to be near his daughter. Both Mim and Mathias meet on a flight from England and are drawn into an immediate, compatible friendship. But both characters carry painful childhood scars which threaten their health and happiness.
At the End of the Day is a story about the many kinds of love we experience in our lives – from lifelong to parental love. It is a story about finding love, losing it and how friendships are tested and built around it. It confronts the agonising grief experienced as Mim and Mathias face their childhood ‘demons’. Like all of Byrski’s books, this was thoroughly engaging and inspiring read!
Reviewed by Karen Williams
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Liz Byrski is a novelist, non-fiction writer, former journalist and ABC broadcaster, with more that fifty years experience in the British and Australian media.
She is the author of 10 bestselling novels. These include Gang of Four, Family Secrets, The Woman Next Door, and her most recent release, A Month of Sundays.
She is also the author of a dozen non-fiction books including the popular memoir, Remember Me; Getting On: Some Thoughts on Women and Ageing and In Love and War: Nursing Heroes.
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