Welcome to Litsy!

And that‘s a wrap! #52Books52Weeks #SetinAustralia

I wasn‘t aware until I finished that this was the last book in this series. It is a slow burn of a book with a couple of mysteries to figure out one a hit and run and one a disappearance. It felt a little flat to me after loving the first two.

So happy to have finished this challenge!

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Low pick. Not my usual genre but I needed a #setinAustralia for #52Books23 and wanted to stretch my comfort zone. I guess this is not just a whodunit but a didanyonedoitatall and a whydidithappen. The gradual reveal of convoluted backstory was both frustrating and interesting and I was satisfied with the ending.

Hubby picked up the library holds today, and I figured I should separate mine out before the kiddo dived into the bag. Tagged is for #52Books23 #setinAustralia and the other two are to do some cramming about perimenopause (yay! Plus two more should come in next week). Getting old is not for the faint of heart.

Avant-garde artist Evan Trentham, his wife Helena and their daughters live a bohemian life in 1930s Melbourne. They start an art colony, inviting upcoming artists to live and work with them. Narrator Lily is the bff of daughter Eva and lives there too for a while. Through her eyes the story unravels as the community and the family fall apart around her. Decades later she reconnects with this past life.
Thank you for sending me this one Karen🩷

I enjoyed this novel of deep friendship between young girls and the art world of the 1930s in Australia. I did not feel compelled to pick it up often, but when I did, I enjoyed it. 3 🌟 #52bookclub23 #setinaustralia @LauraReads @KarenUK @britt_brooke @CarolynM @Smarkies @LeeRHarry @Clwojick @BookBelle84 @jennifer80 @Librarybelle @triplem80 @AshleyHoss820 @Read4life @Bluebird @squirrelbrain @BarbaraTheBibliophage @ravenlee @Deblovestoread

Usually, 1950‘s rural Queensland is the stuff of my nightmares, but I was amused and weirdly charmed by this tale of the goings on of a community of pineapple growers on small holdings somewhere in the tropical inland.
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I agree with some that this was more of a character study novel, and had less of a sense of the Australian Outback, but it‘s still my favourite Harper novel so far.

I loved meeting all of the characters, they were all so evenly drawn that I didn‘t guess the outcome until it actually happened; both the main storyline and the sub-plot.

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It was so wonderful to return to Australia and Aaron Falk! This time, Falk is on a vacay of sorts and is reminded of a tragic disappearance the prior year. Yet, as he looks a bit further into things, something just does not quite add up. Leave it to this flawed yet patient and honest guy to try and figure out what actually happened. Don‘t blink, or you‘ll miss the clues.

I‘m so glad I snagged an #ARC through #NetGalley from the publisher.