Thursdays at Orange Blossom House by Sophie Green
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Thursdays at Orange Blossom House
- By: Sophie Green
- Narrated by: Edwina Wren
- Length: 11 hrs and 4 mins
- Categories: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction
Publisher’s Summary
From the author of beloved top 10 best sellers The Inaugural Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club and The Shelly Bay Ladies Swimming Circle comes a delightful new novel about friendship, love and finding yourself.
Far North Queensland, 1993: at 74, former cane farmer Grace Maud is feeling her age, and her isolation, and thinks the best of life may be behind her. Elsewhere in town, high school teacher Patricia has given up on her dreams of travel and adventure and has moved back home to look after her ageing parents, while cafe owner Dorothy is struggling to accept that she may never have the baby she and her husband so desperately want. Each woman has an unspoken need: reconnection. And that’s how they find themselves at Orange Blossom House, surrounded by perfumed rainforest, being cajoled and encouraged by their yoga teacher, the lively Sandrine. Together, they will find courage and strength—and discover that life has much more to offer than they ever expected.
Set amid the lush beauty of tropical Queensland, Thursdays at Orange Blossom House is a heartwarming story of friendship and family, of chances missed and taken, and the eternal power of love.
©2021 Sophie Green (P)2021 Hachette Australia Pty Ltd
HelenB
Inconsistent story and monodimensional characters
I wanted to like this book but it really irritated me. It used a detached style of narration but the characters weren’t complex enough to make it work. There was so many opportunities to empower the characters but unfortunately Dororthy and Patricia seems like simpering victims of their own lives which was such a shame. The yoga storyline didnt feature as heavily as may have made the book more interesting and the book just had an overall novice feeling about the story which prevented me from truly immersing myself in the world. At the start of the chapters there were some facts that were meant to contextualise the story to a certain time period but then nothing else about the story suggested it was a period piece…I really tried with this story to give it the benefit of the doubt but it just wasnt up to scratch with the usual calibre of story.
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Anonymous User
Wonderful story
I related so much to the beautiful characters in this book. I loved their individual stories and how they all came to part of each others stories