We sat outside at the All Nations huddled under the warmth of an array of heaters around us to talk about last month's book, The Green Road by Anne Enright. The consensus was that the book was well-written and had moments where it really took flight and carried the reader along but there were other parts where that momentum was lost. I thought the setting for the story was a bit corny: the dysfunctional family, the gay son, the alcoholic daughter, the do-gooder, the daughter who married into money and a mother who's losing her grip on the family and her mind.
We had a long discussion trying to choose the next book and eventually settled on Tirra Lirra By The River by Jessica Anderson, an Australian author and the book won the Miles Franklin award in 1978.
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