Monica McInerney, Author . Ballantine $13.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-345-47953-2
McInerney's buoyant new novel chronicles the three Quinlan sisters' efforts to reconcile their combative past and reconnect when their grandmother, Lola, summons them home to South Australia for her 80th birthday party. Under the...
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Monica McInerney, Author . Ballantine $13.95 (499p) ISBN 978-0-345-49012-4
Turner Travel specializes in themed tours that take Merryn Bay, Australia, locals abroad. The natural deaths, two months apart, of patriarch and matriarch Neil and Penny Turner leave the family business in the hands of their three children, Harriet,
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Monica McInerney, Author . Ballantine $13.95 (562p) ISBN 978-0-345-49023-0
McInerney’s sixth novel depicts the tensions that emerge between five sisters as they struggle to establish their own identities. The book opens in 1979, in Tasmania, Australia, just before the lives of Juliet, Miranda, Eliza, Sadie,...
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Monica McInerney, Author Ballantine Books $14 (431p) ISBN 978-0-345-50638-2
McInerney provides a barely probable story that all too often collides with cliché. Lainey Byrne has the usual problems, what with her success in the corporate world and her mild failures in all things romantic. This quasi-idyllic existence...
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Monica McInerney, Ballantine, $15 trade paper (496p) ISBN 978-0-345-51865-1
Everything is not as it seems in McInerney's entertaining exploration of family relationships amid romance and turmoil. When the Templetons move from England to an inherited family manse in Australia, Henry, the charming but financially clueless...
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Monica McInerney. Ballantine, $15 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-53403-3
Australian author McInerney revisits the Quinlan family (first introduced in 2005’s The Alphabet Sisters), this time focusing on the quirky matriarch: 84-year-old Lola. After ensuring that her son, Jim—the proprietor of the South Australian motel...
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