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Found this brand new copy in the street community library! Been wanting to read it too

My second reading for book club this week. I enjoyed a lot more with this reading. I missed book club though so don‘t know what the others felt. I think in winter I‘m a bear, I have a tendency to want to hibernate!
Can‘t believe I was born and lived part of my childhood in a cold climate . I appreciate my mum wanting to relocate to the warm. 🌞🌞. Glad she did!

Op shop. Second book of the Labyrinth I‘ve found for $2. It‘s our next book club book. The Kate books I‘m rereading and The Promise won the Booker last year. I‘ve found an Op shop that has an amazing selection of books and all for $2. Can‘t help myself despite having a 4 layered book shelf full of TBR books. 😏.

Beautiful writing with interesting ideas to ponder! Echoing other reviews, the end is puzzling in that there isn‘t much in the way of tying up loose ends. That‘s okay, if it‘s what Lohrey intended. Otherwise I‘m a bit lost in the labyrinth. 😉 Presumably Erica the MC was restored to herself by it.

Read this today. Beautifully written and a worthy winner. However not completely sure I understood the ending. I might need to read it again slowly.
#joysbooks2021

A worthy winner of the Miles Franklin prize. Great bookclub pick. One woman's journey.

Loved this book. Gentle yet meaningful! Lovely writing. Simple yet complex. Don‘t be confused..it‘s a gem. A deserved winner of this years Miles Franklin Award. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I want to build a labyrinth 💚
#australianliterature #milesfranklinwinner #labyrinth

When her son is gaoled for life, Erica moves to a tiny beachside settlement to be near the prison and begins to think about building a labyrinth on her land. The book explores issues of parent/child and sibling relationships and the power, both positive and negative, of the artistic impulse. I found it strangely compelling although I'm not sure, in the end, what it all meant. #ozfiction

Grieving mother Erica uproots her life to live in an oceanside shack, where she plans to recreate a garden labyrinth from her childhood.

Beautiful #milesfranklin2021 winning #ozfiction

I loved this. Erica is a wonderful, strong older woman overcoming grief & guilt over her son. Told in clean, lucid prose, with a deadpan, no-nonsense tone, it propels you forward. Questions about what happened & how Erica will survive drive the story. Meditative & strangely comforting as Erica‘s life has slowed down to the present moment so we notice landscape & take each person as they come.

I really loved this book. The writing is beautiful and the story is very atmospheric and incredibly sad. My heart ached for Erica and the troubled relationship she has with her incarcerated son. I couldn‘t stop thinking about how hard this would be to live with.
#Ozfiction

Absolutely adored this.

Book exchange and chats with a good friend over cocktails before going to the theatre. My cup runneth over 🙏🏻. #milesfranklin2020winner