Author(s): Dianne Blacklock

Fiction

Ally Tasker is in a dead-end teaching job and a dead-end relationship. Her dream of an exotic life after art college did not consist of cleaning up after school children and fitting in with her dull real estate agent boyfriend. She wished she was more like her friend Meg - at least she had turned her art training into a lucrative job in computer design, not to mention having a gorgeous husband and son. But then Ally's grandfather dies and she returns to the Southern Tablelands, where she must confront issues from her past that her numb, but safe, Sydney life has cushioned her from. Meanwhile, Meg is not as happy as Ally presumed. The life of a married mother with a career is not giving Meg the satisfaction she expected. Sometimes you have to risk all you have to realise what is worth saving. (Preceeding text courtesy of macmillan.co.nz)