The Mint Lawn
By (Author) Gillian Mears
Allen & Unwin
Allen & Unwin
1st November 2011
Australia
General
Fiction
A823.00
Short-listed for Commonwealth Writers Prize 1992 (UK)
Paperback
420
Width 128mm, Height 198mm
358g
North Coast, New South Wales. Clementine is twenty-five and still living in the place where she grew up, rooted there by memories and her own inability to make changes until she has understood her past. The past is dominated by memories of her mother, and her mother, and her mother's attempts to dramatise and enrich small-town life and the perceptions of her three clever, receptive daughters. But only Clementine has stayed. Is this out of loyalty to her mother's memory Or to comfort her father Perhaps she wants to find peace with Hugh, her earnest husband, in whose house she most uncomfortably lives Or is the lure Thomas, who alone can appreciate Clementine's own sensuality, and her humour, but who must remain another of her secrets
Gillian Mears's books include Ride a Cock Horse, Fineflour, The Grass Sister and A Map of the Gardens.