Amber and Alice
Janette Paul
Reviewed by Helen
I loved this story, it is a roller coaster ride through some of the most beautiful landscapes in Australia I loved my visit to the outback and meeting Amber, oh dear did Amber have a few moments during this trip there were many laugh out loud moments and also times were the emotion bubbled over in so many different ways, but did she find what her sister wanted her too?
Amber Jones has what she is sure she has always wanted a good job in human resources a nice place to live, stability and she is happy that is until everything explodes at huge company dinner, too much to drink and the next day Amber wakes up in a speeding car driven by her sister Sage and she has no idea why she is here, slowly things start to come back to her but still why is she with her sister in a car, didn’t they do this enough as children growing up with their mother Goldie?
Amber desperately wants to go home and get her normal life back on track but Sage is sure that a road trip across the Nullabor Plain recounting trips done as kids will help Amber find herself, add to that Sage has found diaries that her mother had written and Amber’s Father’s name is in it and their mother did this trip nine months before Amber was born, she agrees to stay till she can get back home.
So Amber settles into a trip with a convoy of four wheel drives set to travel the outback, with her mother’s Diary, only trouble is with her fabulous entrance to the tour, the leader Tom thinks that she has a serious drinking problem and the rest of the tag along team are truly unhappy with her because of their late start, this is going to be a long two weeks.
What a trip this was, so many emotions play out during the trip, frustration, anger, dummy spits and so much laughter and yes tears as Amber finds herself in situations that you would not believe but along the way she thinks about her future and what she wants, even though it takes her a while to see it and of course there is the growing feelings she has for Tom. This is a great story one that I highly recommend get ready for a fabulous trip with many emotions and lots of laughs.
Amber Jones has what she is sure she has always wanted a good job in human resources a nice place to live, stability and she is happy that is until everything explodes at huge company dinner, too much to drink and the next day Amber wakes up in a speeding car driven by her sister Sage and she has no idea why she is here, slowly things start to come back to her but still why is she with her sister in a car, didn’t they do this enough as children growing up with their mother Goldie?
Amber desperately wants to go home and get her normal life back on track but Sage is sure that a road trip across the Nullabor Plain recounting trips done as kids will help Amber find herself, add to that Sage has found diaries that her mother had written and Amber’s Father’s name is in it and their mother did this trip nine months before Amber was born, she agrees to stay till she can get back home.
So Amber settles into a trip with a convoy of four wheel drives set to travel the outback, with her mother’s Diary, only trouble is with her fabulous entrance to the tour, the leader Tom thinks that she has a serious drinking problem and the rest of the tag along team are truly unhappy with her because of their late start, this is going to be a long two weeks.
What a trip this was, so many emotions play out during the trip, frustration, anger, dummy spits and so much laughter and yes tears as Amber finds herself in situations that you would not believe but along the way she thinks about her future and what she wants, even though it takes her a while to see it and of course there is the growing feelings she has for Tom. This is a great story one that I highly recommend get ready for a fabulous trip with many emotions and lots of laughs.
5 stars
May 29, 2017 by Random House AU
