PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Clare's husband has upped and left after vaguely notifying her of his unhappiness. Her job is demanding, she's left with the house and the teenaged kids and a feeling of disconnectedness. Chris' wife has left him after one too many unsuccessful rounds of IVF and his rather ironic heart attack - as a doctor, he knows about keeping healthy. Louisa has moved into the house next door to Clare; she's larger than life and disorganised and has fallen into an accidentally catering for her friend Tim's funeral business. All these wonderfully ordinarily complicated people come together over the course of four funerals and the perfect chicken sandwiches and lemon tart… A warm and generous novel about life and living it in spite of everything that gets in the way, and the friends you make who make it all worthwhile. Lindy
Dianne Yarwood worked in accounting and corporate advisory in London and Sydney. She also nurtured a love for cooking and catering. At the age of forty, with three young children, she became very ill and her life was saved by an emergency doctor. This brush with mortality gave her the courage to do what she's always wanted to do - write. Dianne lives in Sydney with her husband. The Wakes is her first novel.
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Clare's husband has upped and left after vaguely notifying her of his unhappiness. Her job is demanding, she's left with the house and the teenaged kids and a feeling of disconnectedness. Chris' wife has left him after one too many unsuccessful rounds of IVF and his rather ironic heart attack - as a doctor, he knows about keeping healthy. Louisa has moved into the house next door to Clare; she's larger than life and disorganised and has fallen into an accidentally catering for her friend Tim's funeral business. All these wonderfully ordinarily complicated people come together over the course of four funerals and the perfect chicken sandwiches and lemon tart… A warm and generous novel about life and living it in spite of everything that gets in the way, and the friends you make who make it all worthwhile. Lindy
