An excellent novel, which brings the reader into the story making them feel as if they are part of the drama as it unfolds.
A truly powerful read! A typical Australian suburb with neighbours and friends all going about their everyday lives with the story evolving around two friends Erika and Clementine but this story has undercurrents. On the surface life seems normal but there are undercurrents relating to not only Erica and Clementine but to all the characters in the novel.
The barbeque where an incident happens that changes all their lives and here the book really opens up the undercurrents of misjudgement, fear, guilt, disbelief, blame, shame - a whole spectrum of human emotions affecting everyone Liane writes in such a way that the reader is given a real descriptor of each of the characters and how they react with each other and to the situations that they encounter in the story and often I felt I knew someone in real life who could slip into a character easily. Liane takes you into the private thoughts of the characters which is a big part of the book and allows the reader a deeper understanding of the character leading up to, during and after the barbeque. A powerful novel especially describing the life-changing thoughts and events in the aftermath of the barbeque.
A well written novel which will keep the reader's interest as both the story and the characters develop, and this is a book that could take its place in many genres and thus interest a wide range of readers.
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