Pittwater Life April 2019 Issue
Election Wrap. King Rat. All that Gaz! Art Space North. Testing the Waters.
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Book Review<br />
Gravity Is<br />
The Thing<br />
Jaclyn Moriarty<br />
Pan Macmillan<br />
$32.99<br />
Slipping between the<br />
covers of a Jacyln Moriarty<br />
novel is one of life’s true<br />
pleasures. Her writing is<br />
magical and intelligent,<br />
her main characters are<br />
quick witted and multidimensional<br />
and her<br />
plots take quirky and<br />
unexpected turns.<br />
In her first adult novel<br />
for years, Moriarty introduces us to Abigail Sorensen, owner<br />
of The Happiness Cafe, single mother to Oscar, and sister of<br />
Robert, who disappeared on her 16th birthday. Abigail is also<br />
the recipient of regularly mailed chapters of ‘The Guidebook’,<br />
an extremely odd self-help book.<br />
On her 35th birthday she is invited to a retreat with the<br />
mysterious authors, setting off a chain of events as her<br />
life becomes entangled with those of her fellow Guidebook<br />
recipients, and her quest to find Robert steps up a gear.<br />
Gravity Is The Thing will appeal to readers who love<br />
John Irving’s earlier work, and definitely adults who have<br />
loved Jacyln’s Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte<br />
Mettlestone. Interestingly she was writing both books at the<br />
same time. – Libby Armstrong<br />
News<br />
The Local Voice Since 1991<br />
APRIL <strong>2019</strong> 19
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