The Resource The Patterson girls, Rachael Johns
The Patterson girls, Rachael Johns
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The item The Patterson girls, Rachael Johns represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- How can four sisters build the futures they so desperately want, when the past is reaching out to claim them? When the Patterson daughters return home to Meadow Brook to be with their father after their mother's death, they bring with them a world of complication and trouble. The eldest sister, obstetrician Madeleine, would rather be anywhere but her hometown, violinist Abigail has fled from her stellar career, while teacher Lucinda is struggling to have the children she and her husband so desperately want. The black sheep of the family, Charlie, feels her life as a barista and exercise instructor doesn't measure up to that of her gifted and successful sisters. Dealing with their bereft father who is determined to sell the family motel, their loves old and new and a series of troublesome decisions doesn't make life any easier, but when they go through their mother's possessions and uncover the shocking secret of an old family curse, they begin to question everything they thought they knew. A warm and wise novel about secrets revealed, finding your soulmate and the unique bond between sisters
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First Australian paperback edition.
- Extent
- vii, 496 pages
- Note
- "A remarkable story of four sisters, family secrets and discovering what's really important in life"--Cover
- Isbn
- 9781743693070
- Label
- The Patterson girls
- Title
- The Patterson girls
- Statement of responsibility
- Rachael Johns
- Subject
-
- Family secrets -- Fiction
- trueAustralian
- Chic lit
- trueDomestic fiction
- trueSelf-fulfillment in women
- Secrecy -- Fiction
- trueFamily businesses
- trueFamily secrets
- trueAustralia
- trueFamily relationships
- trueAustralian fiction
- trueSisters
- trueWomen's lives and relationships
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- Secrets -- Fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Sisters -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- How can four sisters build the futures they so desperately want, when the past is reaching out to claim them? When the Patterson daughters return home to Meadow Brook to be with their father after their mother's death, they bring with them a world of complication and trouble. The eldest sister, obstetrician Madeleine, would rather be anywhere but her hometown, violinist Abigail has fled from her stellar career, while teacher Lucinda is struggling to have the children she and her husband so desperately want. The black sheep of the family, Charlie, feels her life as a barista and exercise instructor doesn't measure up to that of her gifted and successful sisters. Dealing with their bereft father who is determined to sell the family motel, their loves old and new and a series of troublesome decisions doesn't make life any easier, but when they go through their mother's possessions and uncover the shocking secret of an old family curse, they begin to question everything they thought they knew. A warm and wise novel about secrets revealed, finding your soulmate and the unique bond between sisters
- Award
-
- Australian Book Industry Awards, General Fiction Book of the Year, 2016.
- Australian Romance Readers Awards, Favourite Contemporary Romance, 2015.
- R*BY Award (Romance Writers of Australia), 2016
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- 10451839
- Cataloging source
- ANL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Johns, Rachael
- Dewey number
- 823.4
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Families
- Family secrets
- Secrecy
- Sisters
- Secrets
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The Patterson girls, Rachael Johns
- Note
- "A remarkable story of four sisters, family secrets and discovering what's really important in life"--Cover
- Carrier category
- volume
- Content category
- text
- Control code
- 000054869271
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- First Australian paperback edition.
- Extent
- vii, 496 pages
- Isbn
- 9781743693070
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)911123231
- Label
- The Patterson girls, Rachael Johns
- Note
- "A remarkable story of four sisters, family secrets and discovering what's really important in life"--Cover
- Carrier category
- volume
- Content category
- text
- Control code
- 000054869271
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Edition
- First Australian paperback edition.
- Extent
- vii, 496 pages
- Isbn
- 9781743693070
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- System control number
- (OCoLC)911123231
Subject
- trueAustralia
- trueAustralian
- trueAustralian fiction
- Chic lit
- trueDomestic fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- trueFamily businesses
- trueFamily relationships
- trueFamily secrets
- Family secrets -- Fiction
- trueLoss (Psychology)
- Secrecy -- Fiction
- Secrets -- Fiction
- trueSelf-fulfillment in women
- trueSisters
- Sisters -- Fiction
- trueWomen's lives and relationships
Genre
Included in
- trueAustralian Book Industry Awards: General Fiction Book of the Year
- trueAustralian Romance Readers Awards: Favourite Contemporary Romance
- trueR*BY Award (Romance Writers of Australia)
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