The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club

by Sophie Green | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 073363656X Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingLadyIndigowing of Orange, New South Wales Australia on 2/20/2018
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Journal Entry 1 by wingLadyIndigowing from Orange, New South Wales Australia on Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Books bring them together - but friendship will transform all of their lives. Five very different women come together in this Top Ten bestseller, set in the Northern Territory of the 1970s, by an exceptional new Australian author.

In 1978 the Northern Territory has begun to self-govern. Cyclone Tracy is a recent memory and telephones not yet a fixture on the cattle stations dominating the rugged outback. Life is hard and people are isolated. But they find ways to connect.

Sybil is the matriarch of Fairvale Station, run by her husband, Joe. Their eldest son, Lachlan, was Joe's designated successor but he has left the Territory - for good. It is up to their second son, Ben, to take his brother's place. But that doesn't stop Sybil grieving the absence of her child.

With her oldest friend, Rita, now living in Alice Springs and working for the Royal Flying Doctor Service, and Ben's English wife, Kate, finding it difficult to adjust to life at Fairvale, Sybil comes up with a way to give them all companionship and purpose: they all love to read, and she forms a book club.

Mother-of-three Sallyanne is invited to join them. Sallyanne dreams of a life far removed from the dusty town of Katherine where she lives with her difficult husband, Mick.

Completing the group is Della, who left Texas for Australia looking for adventure and work on the land.

If you loved The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, The Little Coffee Shop of Kabul and The Thorn Birds you will devour this story of five different women united by one need: to overcome the vast distances of Australia's Top End with friendship, tears, laughter, books and love.

Journal Entry 2 by wingLadyIndigowing at Orange, New South Wales Australia on Tuesday, February 20, 2018
LONGLISTED FOR THE INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION 2018

Journal Entry 3 by wingLadyIndigowing at Orange, New South Wales Australia on Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Sending to our very own reading ladies in the Northern Territory - well I'll start with one :)

Happy reading

;)

Journal Entry 4 by wingLadyIndigowing at In Memory of Oppem, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases on Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Released 6 yrs ago (2/23/2018 UTC) at In Memory of Oppem, A RABCK -- Controlled Releases

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some lighter reading oppem would have enjoyed in her birthday month

happy reading

;)

Journal Entry 5 by amberC at Darwin, Northern Territory Australia on Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Thank you for thinking of us.

Journal Entry 6 by amberC at Darwin, Northern Territory Australia on Tuesday, December 28, 2021
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I loved the list of world events for each year. The story is very much a taste of the Territory. I loved the line about the wet season meant that everyone was grumpy. So true!

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