A review by mandylovestoread
Close to Home by Janet Gover
4.0
An Aussie rural romance and so much more! A circus troupe, a new teacher, the town's favourite Aunt and teenagers finding love for the first time. It is a story of love, of new starts, of family and regret.
Nyringa is a small town in rural NSW. "Aunt" Alice Dwyer has lived there all her life, she knows everybody and they know her. She likes things a certain way and doe not deal well with change. So when a former circus performer Lucienne and her grandson Simon move to town to retire, Alice is not happy. She tries her best to get rid of them, telling anybody that will listen that they are bad for the small town. But when Lucienne opens up her land for her circus to setup camp and rehearse it is the last straw. She wants them gone.
Alice was not a very likeable character at all. She is rude and obnoxious but I think that was the whole point. She is stuck in her ways and the prologue, set 60 years earlier gives some clues as to why. Along with Lucienne and the new teacher Meg, they all try to find their feet in town, all hiding something from their pasts and scared to open up to anybody.
It was a lovely read, I loved the circus scenes in particular.
Thanks to Harlequin Australia for my copy of this book to read.
Nyringa is a small town in rural NSW. "Aunt" Alice Dwyer has lived there all her life, she knows everybody and they know her. She likes things a certain way and doe not deal well with change. So when a former circus performer Lucienne and her grandson Simon move to town to retire, Alice is not happy. She tries her best to get rid of them, telling anybody that will listen that they are bad for the small town. But when Lucienne opens up her land for her circus to setup camp and rehearse it is the last straw. She wants them gone.
Alice was not a very likeable character at all. She is rude and obnoxious but I think that was the whole point. She is stuck in her ways and the prologue, set 60 years earlier gives some clues as to why. Along with Lucienne and the new teacher Meg, they all try to find their feet in town, all hiding something from their pasts and scared to open up to anybody.
It was a lovely read, I loved the circus scenes in particular.
Thanks to Harlequin Australia for my copy of this book to read.