Keeping Up Appearances

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: HQ Fiction
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2022
Edition: First Edition

Description: 451 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: As tensions simmer in a small country town, three women are going to need more than CWA sausage rolls and can-do community spirit to put things right. From a bestselling Australian author comes a delightful novel full of practical wisdom and dry humour that examines female friendship, buried secrets and why honesty is (usually) the best policy.Privacy is hard to maintain in Badara, the kind of small Australian country town where everyone knows everyone elses business. So discovers single mum Paige when she and her three children arrive from the city seeking refuge. Paiges only respite from child care and loneliness is the Tuesday gym club, where she had feared the judgement of the town matriarchs, but she is met only with generosity and a plethora of baked goods. Besides, both the brusque Marion and her polished sister-in-law Briony are too busy dealing with their own dramas to examine hers.Well-to-do farmers wife and proud mother Briony is in full denial of her familys troubles. Even with her eldest daughters marriage in ruins and her son Blakes recent bombshell. Suddenly Briony and husband Vince have a full house again - and the piles of laundry arent the only dirty linen thats about to be aired.For Marion, the unearthing of a time capsule - its contents to be read at the Celebrate Badara weekend - is a disaster. She was only a teenager when she wrote down those poisonous words, but that doesnt mean she wont lose friends and family if they hear what she really thinks of them - especially as the letter reveals their darkest secrets to the world.When the truth comes out for Badara, keeping up appearances may no longer be an option for anyone ...

ISBN: 9781489270832