Keeping Up Appearances
Tricia Stringer
Reviewed by Helen
Another fabulous story told in the special way Tricia Stringers tells her stories, stories that pull me in and bring to life towns and characters that have me cheering and crying, her stories are filled with emotion and honesty and this is one that I loved come along to Badara in South Australia and meet Marion, Briony and Paige.
Badara is a small country town where a lot of the residents have lived all of their lives, many are related by blood or marriage, keeping secrets is not always easy, but is it always good to keep secrets or it is good to keep up appearances?
Paige moves to Badara with her three young children as a single mum she works hard to look after her kids and give them a life they deserve and when she feels the need to leave her life in Victoria, for a better one, a google search finds a house to rent cheaply in Badara, and a new life begins for her and her children hoping she has made the right decision.
Marion has lived here all of her life, she grew up on a farm and is also a teacher, now retired, she is married to Len and they have two married children now living in other states, life hasn’t always been easy but she has gotten through, but when an old time capsule that is uncovered from fifty years ago, she is distraught, Marion was a teenager when she wrote those words and now the repercussions will turn Marion’s world upside down with maybe her darkest secret being reveled.
Briony is Marion’s sister in law and she lives with her husband Vince and youngest of three children on the family farm, now Briony likes things the done the right way and everything to be perfect and when all of a sudden her eldest daughter is back home after leaving her husband and her son returning from London with news that will rock Briony so badly, add to that the message from time capsule and Briony is not coping very well, nothing is going the right way now.
This is such a wonderful story, my views on these three woman changed throughout the story, I felt the pain and heartache they went through at different times as we get to know them even if I didn’t always agree with their thinking, but I loved seeing them open up and care for each other in so many ways, I loved the setting and the many other characters who added so much to the story, there were happy tears when I reached the end and I would highly recommend this story to anyone who enjoys a top notch read.
My thanks to Harlequin AU for my copy to read and review.
Badara is a small country town where a lot of the residents have lived all of their lives, many are related by blood or marriage, keeping secrets is not always easy, but is it always good to keep secrets or it is good to keep up appearances?
Paige moves to Badara with her three young children as a single mum she works hard to look after her kids and give them a life they deserve and when she feels the need to leave her life in Victoria, for a better one, a google search finds a house to rent cheaply in Badara, and a new life begins for her and her children hoping she has made the right decision.
Marion has lived here all of her life, she grew up on a farm and is also a teacher, now retired, she is married to Len and they have two married children now living in other states, life hasn’t always been easy but she has gotten through, but when an old time capsule that is uncovered from fifty years ago, she is distraught, Marion was a teenager when she wrote those words and now the repercussions will turn Marion’s world upside down with maybe her darkest secret being reveled.
Briony is Marion’s sister in law and she lives with her husband Vince and youngest of three children on the family farm, now Briony likes things the done the right way and everything to be perfect and when all of a sudden her eldest daughter is back home after leaving her husband and her son returning from London with news that will rock Briony so badly, add to that the message from time capsule and Briony is not coping very well, nothing is going the right way now.
This is such a wonderful story, my views on these three woman changed throughout the story, I felt the pain and heartache they went through at different times as we get to know them even if I didn’t always agree with their thinking, but I loved seeing them open up and care for each other in so many ways, I loved the setting and the many other characters who added so much to the story, there were happy tears when I reached the end and I would highly recommend this story to anyone who enjoys a top notch read.
My thanks to Harlequin AU for my copy to read and review.
5 stars
- October 5, 2022 by Harlequin Enterprises (Australia) Pty Ltd
