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Ash Mountain
Ash Mountain | Helen FitzGerald
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Single-mother Fran returns to her sleepy hometown to care for her dying father when a devastating bush fire breaks out. A devastating, disaster-noir thriller from the author of The Cry. Fran hates Ash Mountain, and she thought she'd escaped. But her father is ill, and needs care. Her relationship is over, and she hates her dead-end job in the city, anyway. She returns to her hometown to nurse her dying father, her distant teenage daughter in tow for the weekends. There, in the sleepy town of Ash Mountain, childhood memories prick at her fragile self-esteem, she falls in love for the first time, and her demanding dad tests her patience, all in the unbearable heat of an Australian summer. As old friendships and rivalries are renewed, and new ones forged, Fran's tumultuous home life is the least of her worries, when old crimes rear their heads and a devastating bushfire ravages the town and all of its inhabitants... Simultaneously a warm, darkly funny portrait of small-town life - and a woman and a land in crisis - and a shocking and truly distressing account of a catastrophic event that changes things forever, Ash Mountain is a heart-breaking slice of domestic noir, and a disturbing disaster thriller that you will never forget...
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Lizpixie
Ash Mountain | Helen FitzGerald
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Bk4 of March is done! This one didn‘t take long at all compared with my last book. It was under 300pgs though & the kind of story that just flies by once you start. It has a bushfire element like my last book, but this was the complete opposite in humour terms, though the end was just as sad. Think I‘ll be reading more of this aussie author. #LitsyAtoZ2021 #LetterA #PennyPerPage #288c #NerdReading2021 #AussieAuthor21 #Pageathon #BookspinBingo

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Lel2403
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This is so full of humour, the everyday humour between friends and family that‘s sharp, dark and honest. It also deals with the more serious subjects of abuse, racial and sexual, sexuality and death. Ash Mountain is domestic noir, but also a disaster thriller that literally takes your breath away…..

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