{"id":154,"date":"2022-08-22T12:04:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T02:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/?p=154"},"modified":"2022-08-23T12:06:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T02:06:07","slug":"keep-up-appearances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kgracereads.com\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"Keeping up Appearances"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tricia Stringer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

October 2022
ISBN: <\/strong>9781489270832<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As tensions simmer in a small country town, three women are going to need more than CWA sausage rolls and can-do community spirit to put things right. From a bestselling Australian author comes a delightful novel full of practical wisdom and dry humour that examines female friendship, buried secrets and why honesty is (usually) the best policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Privacy is hard to maintain in Badara, the kind of small Australian country town where everyone knows everyone else’s business. So discovers single mum Paige when she and her three children arrive from the city seeking refuge. Paige’s only respite from child care and loneliness is the Tuesday gym club, where she had feared the judgement of the town matriarchs, but she is met only with generosity and a plethora of baked goods. Besides, both the brusque Marion and her polished sister-in-law Briony are too busy dealing with their own dramas to examine hers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well-to-do farmer’s wife and proud mother Briony is in full denial of her family’s troubles. Even with her eldest daughter’s marriage in ruins and her son Blake’s recent bombshell. Suddenly Briony and husband Vince have a full house again – and the piles of laundry aren’t the only dirty linen that’s about to be aired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Marion, the unearthing of a time capsule – its contents to be read at the Celebrate Badara weekend – is a disaster. She was only a teenager when she wrote down those poisonous words, but that doesn’t mean she won’t lose friends and family if they hear what she really thinks of them – especially as the letter reveals their darkest secrets to the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the truth comes out for Badara, keeping up appearances may no longer be an option for anyone …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My review: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keeping Up Appearances is a wonderfully feel good easy read.  Tricia covers the subjects of single parenting, same sex relationships, secrets, characters needing strength and getting it from a close knit community with sensitively.  This is a community that embraces outsiders and a single mum who over time learns to accept they are offering her support,  rather than her initial idea that she was seen as a charity case. The story moves quite slowly to begin with but is wrapped up beautifully in an unusual manner through the eyes of the local newspaper. Thank you to @netgalley<\/a> for allowing me to read an advance copy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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