Title: A disappointment
Product review: Although slow to begin with, this was easy enough to read, but did fall into that category of "a bit of a waste of reading time", unless you had a particular reason for reading it. The basic idea (the story of three sisters from a small town in South Australia who all end up back in that town together as adults after years of avoiding one another, and rediscover that closeness) and the setting appealed, but the story itself is very simplistic to the point that it makes you cringe at times. And the book is not particularly "true to label" - in an attempt to pack a punch and give the exploration of the sisters' relationships a real focus, it adds a storyline which takes the book into very different territory and which seems at odds with its brief and promise. Presumably this is intended to either shock you or engage your emotions - but for me, it just came across as a cheap trick.
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