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Melting Moments
Written by Anna Goldsworthy
Narrated by Olivia Beardsley
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
It is 1941. Eighteen-year-old Ruby leaves behind the family farm, her serious mother and roguish father, and heads for Adelaide. After a brief courtship, she enters into a hasty marriage with a soldier about to go to war - who returns a changed man. With an eyebrow pencil in one hand and gardening shears in the other, Ruby navigates the years doing her duty as a woman, contending with her damaged husband and eccentric in-laws, allowing marriage and motherhood to fill her with purpose and pleasure - and only occasionally wondering, is this all there is? MELTING MOMENTS recreates the Adelaide and Melbourne of half a century ago, bringing a family to life as they move through the decades, challenging and caring for and loving one another, often in surprising ways.
Author
Anna Goldsworthy
Anna Goldsworthy is the author of several books, including the novel Melting Moments and the memoirs Piano Lessons and Welcome to Your New Life. Her writing has appeared in The Monthly, The Age, The Australian, The Adelaide Review and The Best Australian Essays. She is also a concert pianist, with several recordings to her name.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/53.5 stars, rounded up. Quite sweet and cloying at times but gently leads, almost meanders, you through a tale of an interesting life from almost-start to finish.