Hello from the Gillespies /
McInerney, Monica,
Hello from the Gillespies / Monica McInerney. - 518 pages ; 24 cm.
For more than thirty years, Angela Gillespie has sent friends and family around the world an end-of-the-year letter titled 'Hello from the Gillespies'. It's always been cheery and full of good news. This year, Angela surprises herself - she tells the truth ...The Gillespies are far from the perfect family that Angela has made them out to be. Her husband is coping poorly with retirement. Her 32-year-old twins are having career meltdowns. Her third daughter, badly in debt, can't stop crying. And her ten-year-old son spends more time talking to his imaginary friend than to real ones. Without Angela, the family would fall apart. But when Angela is taken from them in a most unexpected manner, the Gillespies pull together - and pull themselves together - in wonderfully surprising ways ..
9781921901812 1921901810 9780143572848 1921901810
Families--Fiction.
Family--Fiction.
Amnesiacs--Fiction.
Australian fiction.
Domestic fiction.
A823.4
Hello from the Gillespies / Monica McInerney. - 518 pages ; 24 cm.
For more than thirty years, Angela Gillespie has sent friends and family around the world an end-of-the-year letter titled 'Hello from the Gillespies'. It's always been cheery and full of good news. This year, Angela surprises herself - she tells the truth ...The Gillespies are far from the perfect family that Angela has made them out to be. Her husband is coping poorly with retirement. Her 32-year-old twins are having career meltdowns. Her third daughter, badly in debt, can't stop crying. And her ten-year-old son spends more time talking to his imaginary friend than to real ones. Without Angela, the family would fall apart. But when Angela is taken from them in a most unexpected manner, the Gillespies pull together - and pull themselves together - in wonderfully surprising ways ..
9781921901812 1921901810 9780143572848 1921901810
Families--Fiction.
Family--Fiction.
Amnesiacs--Fiction.
Australian fiction.
Domestic fiction.
A823.4