All About Ella All About Ella

All About Ella

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Publisher Description

At 70, and widowed, Ella is about to find out that blood is not always thicker than water. A wise and warm-hearted story about aging, family and community for readers of Tricia Stringer and Liz Byrski.

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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2021
1 September
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
416
Pages
PUBLISHER
HQ Fiction
SELLER
HarperCollins Australia Pty Limited
SIZE
1.2
MB

Customer Reviews

Leggy from Down Under ,

Delightful

This book rang true to several events in my life, but most of all the treasure of friendship. It only takes a few. Such a lovely heartfelt story following several characters by chapter which didn’t break the continuity of the theme at all. Easy to read but very poignantly to living life with death, family conflict & starting all over again.

Porshs seven ,

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