In this delightful and wry portrayal of life with young children, the pitfalls and pleasures of parenting, grandparenting, and just being a child, are explored. Set in a world, and completed, before the current prevalence of screens culture, there is a simplicity in the problems faced by this family, which could ignite in the reader a nostalgia and a longing for a time that might well have disappeared.
The interlinked, episodic stories that cover the first five years in the lives of Jack and Serena and their extended family light up each page. Each character is deftly drawn against the backdrop of everyday situations, and taps into the nuances of relationships, sometimes painful, often joyful, and everything in between. ‘When is Forever?’ is a light-hearted fictional insight into middle-class suburban Australia, in which the voices of four generations come together in a subtle and textured comment on family life.
Paperback
232 pages
Dimensions 21.6 × 14 × 1.3 cm
In this delightful and wry portrayal of life with young children, the pitfalls and pleasures of parenting, grandparenting, and just being a child, are explored. Set in a world, and completed, before the current prevalence of screens culture, there is a simplicity in the problems faced by this family, which could ignite in the reader a nostalgia and a longing for a time that might well have disappeared.
The interlinked, episodic stories that cover the first five years in the lives of Jack and Serena and their extended family light up each page. Each character is deftly drawn against the backdrop of everyday situations, and taps into the nuances of relationships, sometimes painful, often joyful, and everything in between. ‘When is Forever?’ is a light-hearted fictional insight into middle-class suburban Australia, in which the voices of four generations come together in a subtle and textured comment on family life.
Paperback
232 pages
Dimensions 21.6 × 14 × 1.3 cm
