- Adult children of divorced parents, Birthday parties, Fiction, Humor (Fiction)
Australian triplets Lyn, Cat, and Gemma Kettle are about to turn thirty-three and one is pregnant, one has just had her life turned upside down, and one is only just keeping hers from skidding off the fast lane.
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Contemporary, classical in form, spare and effortless.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- effortlessdemanding
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Liane Moriarty
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 370
- Publisher
- Harper Paperbacks, Pan Macmillan, HarperCollins
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780061671234
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“You could argue that it started thirty-four years ago when twenty-year-old Frank Kettle, a tall, fair, hyperactive ex-altar boy, fell madly in lust with Maxine Leonard, a long-legged languid red-head just a few days short of her nineteenth birthday.”
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