Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

SUMMER READING

Contemporary fiction

Birds of a Feather by Tricia Stringer, HarperCollins

Upstanding town councillor and partner in the Wallaby Bay fishing fleet, Eve, 70, never forgets the day 30 years ago her duplicitous husband died. She was about to leave him when the call came that a winch had fallen on top of him. Recuperating from surgery, Eve’s position on the committee is threatened by malicious small-town gossip and the fleet wants her to sell her partnership. In walks recently let-go research assistant Eve’s goddaughter Julia, and nurse/sometime cleaner Lucy, mother of two, partner working the “Fly In/Fly Out” jobs to earn extra cash. Can this troubled trio unite and soar?

The Hush by Sara Foster, HarperCollins

This dystopian thriller is set in an uncomfortably near future. COVID, climate change and food shortages are gripping the UK, government surveillance is out of control and for the past five months something even more alarming has hit – a wave of stillbirths with seemingly perfect

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