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A hundred small lessons, a novel, Ashley Hay

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A hundred small lessons

Ashley Hay

a novel

When Elsie Gormley falls and is forced to leave her Brisbane home of sixty-two years, Lucy Kiss and her family move in with their new life, new house, new city and new baby. Lucy and her husband are struggling to transform from adventurous lovers to new parents and seek to smooth the rough edges of their present with memories of their past as they try to discover their future selves. In her nearby nursing home, Elsie revisits the span of her life, the moments she can't bear to let go - the haunts to which she might yet return. Her memories of marriage, motherhood, love and death are intertwined with her old house, whose rooms seem to breathe Elsie's secrets into Lucy. Through one hot, wet Brisbane summer, seven lives and two different slices of time wind along with the flow of the river, as two families chart the ways in which we come, sudden and oblivious, into each other's stories and the unexpected ripples that flow out from those chance encounters

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