Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Fairvale Ladies Book Club

I enjoyed Fairvale Ladies Book Club by Sophie Green which is set on a cattle station in the Northern Territory in the late 1970s to early 1980s.  The station is owned by the Baxter family.  The family matriarch is Sybil.  The other ladies in the club are her friend Rita, a nurse with the Flying Doctor Service; Sybil's daughter-in-law Kate, an English girl; Sallyanne, a young mother with marriage problems and Della, a Texan girl used to living on a large cattle property.  The story is about how each of their lives go on over the years at that time.  The book club is a way of helping with the isolation the women deal with.  A nice story, sometimes a bit too much "peaches and cream", but easy to read. 31/2/5

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