A review by emmafromoz
Grace's Table by Sally Piper

4.0

A thoughtful & rewarding read. Grace's 70th birthday lunch is a repast in several ways. We are reminded of the comforts of true friendship & of the undercurrents of tension that can run through any family. The grandchildren provide a refreshing note of ignorance/innocence (the moment when Jorja asks why she should learn to grow her own cherry tomatoes when she can always come & eat her grandmother's is poignant). Grace's responses to her children and to her grandchildren are very different -- and yet the hope that they will escape the traps of the past is deflated somewhat by her children's interactions with their own children. Ultimately uplifting, there are moments of Grace along the way as well as heartbreaking truths. We are reminded that truth is always relative....