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Lädt ... Food, Sex and Moneyvon Liz Byrski
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. I'm a bit over Liz Byrski. All her novels follow the same formula. I'm not totally averse to the "chook lit" genre because I'm in the over-50 target demographic. The issues raised are the sorts of things that people my age have to deal with: your parents getting dementia and dying; some of your own peers starting to die; your children getting serious about their own relationships and perhaps starting to have their own children; problems in your own relationships; getting near the end of your work life, etc. The trouble with Byrski is that she tries to get every issue into every book and she deals with every issue at a pretty superficial level. She always has a big cast of characters with at least three or four featuring most prominently. She also write in a very self-consciously "Australian" genre, like Di Morrissey (who writes in what I'd call the romance-on-an-outback-sheep-station genre). I wonder if Tourism Australia sponsors their work? I think I'll stick with novels that offer greater depth and less breadth in the future. Opening Sentence: "...Once, a long time ago when she was very much younger, Bonnie had had sex for money..." I am a fan of Liz Byrski and this book hasn't disappointed me. The main characters, as always, are real women, women who will never see 50 again. After the death of her husband, Bonnie has returned to Australia a wealthy woman and moved back in with her elderly mother. Bonnie arranges to meet up with her two best friends from school, who she hasn’t seen for forty years. Fran is a food writer, who is struggling to cope with her work, her finances, her ailing mother and her children; while Sylvia is trapped in an increasingly loveless marriage to an Anglican minister. The lunch triggers changes in the trio's lives that none of the women could have envisioned that day. The plot concentrates mostly on those changes and the challenges to facilitate those changes; challenges which are a clever blend of those faced by women "of a certain age" and those faced by women no matter what their age. Each woman came alive for me, each had her own set of strengths and weaknesses and I found myself relating to the various mother/daughter relationships on more than one occasion. One in particular was the re-occurring theme of "bullying." Even when daughters are all grown up they can still make life very uncomfortable for you if you don't fall into their idea of what you should or should not, be doing. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
It's almost forty years since the three ex-convent girls left school and went their separate ways, but finally they meet again.Bonnie, rocked by the death of her husband, is back in Australia after decades in Europe, and is discovering that while financial security eliminates worry, it doesn't guarantee a fulfilling life. Fran, long divorced, is a struggling freelance food writer, battling with her diet, her bank balance, and her relationship with her adult children. And Sylvia, marooned in a long and passionless marriage to an ambitious Anglican minister, is facing a crisis that will crack her world wide open.Together again, sharing their past lives, secrets, aspirations and deepest fears, Bonnie, Fran and Sylvia embark on a creative venture that will challenge everything they thought they knew about themselves - and give them more second chances than they ever could have imagined. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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This wasn't my favourite Byrski book. I love her frank writing style & it touches on a lot of important issues for older women. But I kept on catching my mind wandering on this read which made it a bit hard to keep track of the characters & their parents, children etc. I also thought it was a bit long as well as just plodding on it's way. I actually got a bit bored in the end.