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Belly Dancing for Beginners
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Ideal for readers who enjoy heartfelt and character-driven fiction centred on womenβs lives and relationships. Fans of authors like Monica McInerney, Liane Moriarty, and Joanna Trollope will appreciate Liz Byrskiβs engaging storytelling and warm characterisation.
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Byrski's forte is getting inside women's heads and hearts - Australian Women's Weekly Book of the Month.
Gayle and Sonya are a study in contrasts: one reserved and cautious, the other confident and outspoken. But their very different lives will be turned upside down when they impulsively join a belly dancing class.
Marissa, their teacher, is sixty, sexy, and very much her own person, and as Gayle and Sonya learn about the origins and meaning of the dance, much more than their muscle tone begins to change. Gayle, crippled by the secrets at the heart of her marriage, is forced to face who and what she has become; the seriously single Sonya begins to explore her isolation from her family; and even Marissa, accustomed to seeing other women changed by the dance, must finally confront a horrifying event from her own past. And then there are the men in their lives: Oliver, deeply confused about why his politically correct attitude to women never quite seems to work; Brian, blissfully unaware that he's sailing towards the rocks; and Frank, who's battling his own demons.
Belly Dancing for Beginners is a warm-hearted, moving, and often outright funny story of what can happen when women and men are brave enough to reveal who they really are.
Praise for Liz Byrski:
Her plots and characters get stronger with each book - The Sydney Morning Herald.
Liz Byrski has a guaranteed cheer squad for her novels which champion...women taking charge of their life and growing old creatively - Daily Telegraph.
Fans of Monica McInerney, Liane Moriarty and Joanna Trollope will love Liz Byrski.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781743516928
Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 March 2014
Country: Australia
Imprint: Pan Australia
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 24.0mm
Width: 132.0mm
Height: 200.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 320
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Liz Byrski is the author of seven novels and a number of non-fiction books, the latest of which is Getting On: Some Thoughts on Women and Ageing. She has worked as a freelance journalist, a broadcaster with ABC Radio and an advisor to a minister in the West Australian Government. Liz has a PhD in writing from Curtin University where she teaches professional and creative writing.
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