Description: When Grace Went Away by Meredith Appleyard With a deft hand, Meredith Appleyard shows us the beating - and sometimes aching - heart of rural Australia. A poignant tale with characters that linger long after the last page. Bestselling Australian Author Tricia StringerShes gone ... will her family pull together, or fall further apart? Functionally dysfunctional. Thats how financial analyst Grace Fairley describes her family in the small South Australian farming community of Miners Ridge - a family fractured by tragedy and kept that way by anger, resentment and petty jealousies. As the eldest sibling, Grace tries to keep the family in touch, but now shes accepted a promotion to the London office. Time-zones and an enormous workload mean shes forced to take a step back, although she finds time to stay in contact with Miners Ridge landscape gardener Aaron Halliday.Sarah Fairley, Graces mother, fled Miners Ridge and her embittered husband eight years ago. Now, in the absence of Grace, she finds herself pulled back to the small town where her estranged children and grandchildren live. Drawn into the local community, and trying to rebuild family relationships, she uncovers a long-kept secret that could change her world ...Can Grace, Sarah and their family find a way to heal? Who will have the courage to make the first move? FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Meredith Appleyard lives in the Clare Valley wine-growing region of South Australia. As a registered nurse and midwife she practised in a wide range of country health settings, including the Royal Flying Doctor Service. She has been an agency nurse in London and a volunteer in Vietnam. When a friend challenged Meredith to do what shed always wanted to do – write a novel – she saved up, took time off work, sat down at the computer and wrote her first novel. Realising after the first rejection letter she needed to learn more about the craft of writing, she attended workshops, joined a writers group and successfully completed an Advanced Diploma of Arts in Professional Writing with the Adelaide Centre for Arts. Meredith lives with her husband and border collie Lily, and when shes not writing shes reading!meredithappleyard.com.au Details ISBN1489254595 Author Meredith Appleyard Year 2020 ISBN-10 1489254595 ISBN-13 9781489254597 Format Paperback Publication Date 2020-05-18 Country of Publication Australia Publisher HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd Imprint HQ Fiction Pages 448 Language English Audience General NZ Release Date 2020-06-15 AU Release Date 2020-05-17 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:127429277;
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ISBN-13: 9781489254597
ISBN: 9781489254597
Book Title: When Grace Went Away
Item Height: 235mm
Item Width: 155mm
Author: Meredith Appleyard
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Lifestyle, Books
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Publication Year: 2020
Type: Textbook
Genre: Romance
Item Weight: 545g
Number of Pages: 448 Pages