Geoff Sharrock
Billed on the front cover as ‘an entertaining comedy of manners’, this is exactly what this light but pacy, 500-page novel turns out to be. It is the story of Andrea, a well-off wife and mother whose life changes when her husband leaves her for someone else.
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It’s high time that bookstores set aside a section for novels that document the increasingly familiar territory of the inner lives of middle-class white Australian women who grew up in the 1960s.
Starting at Melbourne University in 1962 and ending in Sydney in 1992, Kristin Williamson’s Tanglewood traces the lives of three female friends: an energetic but childless investigative journalist, a ... (read more)