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The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club by Sophie Green
4.0
Starting off in 1978, we follow five women brought together by Sybil, the matriarch of Fairvale Station in a small corner of Australia's vast Northern Territory. Life in the Outback is hard, with many challenges to overcome including the lack of modern technology (a working telephone!), the huge distances between towns and ranches, homesickness and broken hearts. But all of the women are brought together through a love of reading, meeting up a couple of times a year in the switch between the wet and dry seasons.
This was a pick from my "real life" book club and I thoroughly enjoyed it. At first, it seemed like a nice, run of the mill "chick lit" but then turned into something with more sensitivity and depth, covering issues such as domestic abuse, family estrangement and racism by white Australians towards First Nation people and how it is important to have female friends to help you get through.
As I commented at the book club Zoom discussion last night, it made a nice change to read a book set in the Outback that wasn't a murder mystery!
This was a pick from my "real life" book club and I thoroughly enjoyed it. At first, it seemed like a nice, run of the mill "chick lit" but then turned into something with more sensitivity and depth, covering issues such as domestic abuse, family estrangement and racism by white Australians towards First Nation people and how it is important to have female friends to help you get through.
As I commented at the book club Zoom discussion last night, it made a nice change to read a book set in the Outback that wasn't a murder mystery!