Böcker av Sally Piper

This third novel from acclaimed Queensland author Sally Piper focuses on the repercussions, within one family, of a terrible crime. Even though sixteen years have passed, Billie will never recover from the murder of her daughter, Jess, and clings to her memory--and the site of her death--like a life raft. Daniel, who was a toddler when his mother was killed, can recall little of what happened but knows if he's to have any chance of a better future he needs to move on from that defining event--if only his grandmother would let him. Meanwhile Daniel's stepmother, Carla, also feels trapped by Jess's legacy but has a plan that she believes will help everyone to escape from the long shadow of the past. Deeply human, evocative, and beautifully written, Bone Memories explores themes of human connection and the memorialisation of place.

Three women set off on a hiking adventure into the wilderness, encountering dangers that will test and affirm the bond between them. Timely in relation to the Me Too movement and increasing awareness of limits imposed on women.

Grace's seventieth birthday looms and she prepares a feast for twelve people, reflecting on the simmering tensions between the three generations that are about to be brought together. A moving and funny look at memory and family ritual.

''A wise and tender novel about food, friendship and marriage.'' Kristina Olsson, author of Boy, LostGrace has not had twelve people at her table for a long time. Hers isn''t the kind of family who share regular Sunday meals. But it isn''t every day you turn seventy.As Grace prepares the feast, she reflects on her life, her marriage and her friendships. When the three generations come together, simmering tensions from the past threaten to boil over. The one thing that no one can talk about is the one thing that no one can forget. Grace''s Table is a moving and often funny novel about the power of memory and the family rituals that define us.