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All about Ella / Meredith Appleyard.

All about Ella / Meredith Appleyard.
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ISBN 9781867230847 (paperback)
1867230844
Author Appleyard, Meredith
Title All about Ella / Meredith Appleyard.
Publication Sydney, N.S.W. : HQ Fiction, 2021.
Physical description 399 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes At 70, Ella's world is upended, leaving her at odds with her three adult children, whose attention is fixed more firmly on her money than her ongoing welfare. After an argument with her son Anthony, she flees his Adelaide home for Cutlers Bay, a seaside town on the Yorke Peninsula. There she befriends Angie, a 40-year-old drifter, and becomes an irritant to local cop Zach. He's keen to shift Ella off his turf, because Anthony phones daily, demanding his mother be sent home. And besides, Zach just doesn't trust Angie. Ella warms to Cutlers Bay, and it warms to her. In a defiant act of self-determination, she buys an entirely unsuitable house on the outskirts of town, and Angie agrees to help make it habitable. Zach is drawn to the house on the clifftop, and finds himself revising his earlier opinions of Ella, and Angie. A keenly observed story about aging and its inherent vulnerability, about community and chosen family, about how family stressors shape us all, about trust and loyalty, and about standing up for yourself.
Subject Families -- Fiction
Life change events -- Fiction
Aging -- Fiction
Families -- South Australia -- Fiction
Widows -- Fiction
Older women -- Fiction
Parent and adult child -- Fiction
Friendship -- Fiction
Genre/Form Australian fiction
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