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Title: The Meaning of Grace

Author: Deborah Forster

Narrator: Cat Gould

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-14-14

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

"Mum is the reference point. If you ever get confused about anything, there she is, waiting with all her knowledge of you."

Grace Fisher, mother of three, one day decides her husband is a sore disappointment and moves the family from Melbourne to a coastal village in Victoria. But Ian's slow dissolution on the couch masked a depression that will harrow him into an early grave, leaving the kids with a lifetime of questioning: What happened to their father? How did he get so sad? Between their father's demise and Grace's hardscrabble existence working at a local bakery, each child is left to find meaning on their own.

Edie, the eldest child, locks herself into a romantic ideal so lofty that it can't help but fail. The middle child, Juliet, struts and careens through life, filling it only with what she can seduce, steal, and manipulate. Sibling rivalry between sisters proves the slowest and fiercest of burns. Love comes easily for Ted, the youngest, but when his wife abandons him to raise two daughters on his own, the perils of fatherhood are laid bare. When Grace, the distant, imperfect hub of the family, is diagnosed with terminal cancer, the siblings are forced to confront each other as adults, and come to understand their mother.

Written with her hallmark warmth, humour, and deftness of observation, Deborah Forster's follow-up novel to the Miles Franklin shortlisted The Book of Emmett is a moving story of the loves and rivalries that burn at the heart of every family, and the meaning that comes from it.

Members Reviews:

Make some time for this one

I loved this book. The characters were beautifully drawn and became real as I traveled through the book, but Deborah never said too much. The perspectives were gentle and suggestive, moving the reader into a lovely dance of imagining events from different points of view. I could not put this book down. There were so many sentences and phrases that I re-read in order to set them in my mind. Deborah's writing is a joy to read. Her storytelling is moving. A thoroughly wonderful book.

Three Stars

Good storey, however ended a little abruptly.

Not enough story

The book is well written but there was not enough story to maintain my interest and so I didn't finish it.