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Family Skeleton
Family Skeleton | Carmel Bird
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From inside her Toorak mansion, Margaret, matriarch, widow of Edmund Rice O'Day of O'Day Funerals, secretly surveys her family in the garden. Everyone, including Margaret herself, is oblivious to the secrets that threaten to be uncovered by a visiting American relative who is determined to excavate the O'Day's family history. How far will Margaret go in order to bury the truth? Family Skeleton examines the dark heart of a family that has for generations been engaged in dark business. You can't dig a grave without disturbing the smooth surface of the ground. Deftly woven with elegant wit and with compassion, this dark comedy is about what you might unearth if you dig deep enough. *** "Carmel Bird is a literary artist to her fingertips...She writes prose that has the precision of poetry and that uncanny quality poetry has of making the inner life speak." -- Peter Craven *** Carmel Bird is an established Australian author of over 20 books. She has been three-times shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. [Subject: Fiction]
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MrsMalaprop
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Thank you for passing this one on to me @Jeg 🙏. And it‘s a signed copy 😊. You were right, I did enjoy it.

I had never heard of this author before, but see she has written quite a lot of books!

The book is set in Melbourne and moves mainly from the 1950‘s to the present day, but it felt quite British to me.

#ozfiction

Teresereading A Tasmanian author 1y
MrsMalaprop Oh right @Teresereading I didn‘t know that. Are you familiar with her? Beautiful writing 😍 1y
Teresereading @MrsMalaprop yes I am, but I haven‘t read this 1y
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Jeg
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Not sure why I picked this book up but I‘m glad I did. Published in 2016 by our university press here in West Oz , it is a delight. She is a brilliant writer. Even if I had disliked the story, which I didn‘t, I would have loved the writing . A pure delight. Story has two narrators, one being a skeleton in the cupboard, all seeing. Slow evenly paced start, surprising ending. I really enjoy this read.