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I was captivated by this tense (in a good way) coming of age story. Recommend for anyone who liked Educated. (ARC from @LibraryThing Early Reviewers)

Reading outside and listening to the rain with some seltzer and my patriotic dog. Life is good.

#NoFemmeber
One from my 2019 #TBR .... From the blurb, it seems like the name of this farm gives #falsehope .....
Sounds ominous! 😳
“It is the winter of 1985. Hope Farm sticks out of the ragged landscape like a decaying tooth, its weatherboard walls sagging into the undergrowth.”

Today's opshop haul. Went to the Toronto library summer book sale (like I do every year) but there was only rubbish left😭 luckily I scored at the Salvos! I love a good scrapbooking magazine (if only I had time to scrapbook). The French phase book is because I am off to France this year to be a bridesmaid in a castle for my friend gorgeous friend Astrid!

There is little hope at Hope Farm. Instead this is a story of people who slip between the cracks of society, trapped by choices they made when there really was no other choice available to them.

Life in a hippie commune in 1980s Australia... totally hooked.

A forced, but necessary break from A Little Life while my Kindle charges, is the perfect opportunity to start a physical book using my new bookmark.

Another great Australian read. Hope Farm captures the fraught emotional frustrations of growing up and not fitting in, and the painful compromises we all make for love. She captures Australia in the 1980s with atmosphere.

Any book that opens with a quote from one of the best Atwoods has to be good

The writing and mood were tremendous, but I struggled and struggled with Ishtar. Her neglect of Silver, her self absorption, her seeming failure to learn from mistakes just made me so angry in the end, I couldn't keep going.

A lovely, melancholy, compelling story of a mother & daughter and the way their lives turn upside down while living on a farm commune. Tinged with hope & regret, it tells the story of people totally on the margins of society. I really liked it.