Family baggage / Ilsa Evans.
Publication details: Chatswood, NSW : HQ, 2023.Edition: First Australian paperback editionDescription: 389 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781867270744
- 1867270749
- A823.4 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | EVA | Available | 071934 |
"Growing older and growing up aren't necessarily the same thing..." -- Front cover.
"Things you might be surprised to find when cleaning out your deceased mother's house: a secret diary, a family mystery, a new lease on life. Grief-stricken middle-aged sisters George, Kat and Annie give themselves a week to pack up their childhood home and divide their mother's belongings. Beloved items are contested: an Eames chair, a collection of war medals, a learn-to-read book. The sisters - bossy Kat, mediator George and petulant Annie - are hampered by sibling rivalry, the prickly demands of their own offspring, the needs of their disabled younger brother and, in George's case, the after-effects of a spot of adultery. The discovery of a decades' old diary divides the women further: not only do they learn what their mother really thought of them, they learn that she had a life entirely of her own. They are not the family they thought they were - and their mother was so much more than she seemed. This revelation might be the key to George's freedom..." -- Back cover.
Tertiary/Undergraduate, General.