A change in Altitude

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Genre - Relationships

Popular author Anita Shreve has written about newlyweds Margaret and Patrick setting off to live in Kenya for a year. He is a doctor and she is a photographer and they settle into married life as strangers in a dangerous land. They agree to join a climbing expedition to the summit of Mount Kenya with two other couples without realizing just how testing it will be on them. Both physically and emotionally they are unprepared for the tragedy that unfolds and find they may never recover from it.

---- Reviewed by Sue, Belgrave

Lovesong by Alex Miller

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Genre - Love stories

This novel from a master storyteller is simple, familiar, romantic and tragic. It takes us into the lives of the widow Houria and her young niece Sabiha who run a small Tunisian café in Paris which caters to the North African immigrant workers of the area. Sabiha is a young woman delighted to be living in Paris with her Aunt and sometimes she can barely remember her old life in El Djem. When Australian John Patterner stumbles into their café he embarks on a gentle romance with the beautiful Sabiha. It is their tragic love story that is later confided to his new friend, Ken when they are finally settled in suburban Melbourne many years later.

---- Reviewed by Sue, Belgrave