Sunday Story

While on 'holidays' this past week I took a pile of books with me, and a pile of edits to do, and a notebook for new ideas, and ... you get the picture? I took lots to do and all I managed was to read one book!

One book.

Thank goodness it was a good one.

I was at a wedding last weekend, then we circumnavigated Barrington Tops National Park driving in a few times when you could. Then I had a few days rest while Mr Ellink went to a work conference (but he kept popping out of things to check up on me), which all amounted to lots of kilometres done, lots of photos and eating and chatting, not a lot of reading and even less writing or editing.

But I digress.

House for all Seasons is wonderful. It's the story of 4 women who are brought together after 20 years of almost non-contact. They had been friends at school until tragedy and life sent them all off in different directions.

I don't want to give too much away, so I won't say alot. Jenn J McLeod does an amazing thing by weaving the story together from 4 separate parts/points of view. It's very clever. The town and the people are brought to life. The 4 'friends' are people I'd like to meet (well, maybe not all of them!) but definitely some of them.

I'm a sook, so I cried... often... but not buckets. I smiled a lot. I laughed. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Actually, I was pretty miffed each time I had to stop reading it. I wanted to get lost in the world and stay there.

If I could only pick one book to read on my holiday, I'm glad it was this.