Australian fiction – Scuffed Granny

The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan

A magnificent book of war and love and courage and weakness – a tour through the human experience: its emotions, its hesitancies, its losses

Early twentieth century Melbourne is a city of dark corners but Reggie da Costa is there to shine an investigative light in this lively book

A tale of a town and its secrets, set on the coast of Tasmania with caves, storms and beaches and lots of twists and turns towards the truth

A novel set in Australia which is muted in tone but intense in story, with the secrets that families hold at its heart

A story about family, relationships and secrets, told with humour and emotion with all the hallmarks of Moriarty’s entertaining style

Liane Moriarty takes good friends, a tense school atmosphere and fragemented and destructive relationship and makes a great piece of reading

It may be for young adults but I loves this book – if you want to be transported back to your teenage days without the angst, this is for you.