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Cleanskin by Gay Lynch

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November 2006, no. 286

Cleanskin by Gay Lynch

Wakefield Press, $24.95 pb, 253 pp

Cleanskin by Gay Lynch

by
November 2006, no. 286

Desperate Housewives, eat your heart out. This warm slice of smalltown gothic simmers with barely disguised marital discord, traumatic childhoods, eating disorders, bed-hopping and maternal angst – all centred around a playgroup in the South Australian town of Port Lincoln. Bitchy Madelaine, insecure Danica, sniffy Pauline, downtrodden Jo and earth-mother Nell have little in common but their children and geographical proximity. It is enough to form a friendship of sorts, albeit one spiked with deliberately provocative conversational lures, needling one-liners, sharp character assessments and sly jabs at the fleshy parts of one another’s self-esteem. As the cracks deepen in the veneer of their exterior lives, this precarious network becomes increasingly important – and fragile.

Cleanskin

Cleanskin

by Gay Lynch

Wakefield Press, $24.95 pb, 253 pp

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