A good winter
By: Gigi Fenster
Publisher: Text Publishing
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Melbourne, Victoria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781922458131
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Older women; Fiction; Female friendship; Interpersonal relations; Women; Mental health; Jealousy; Grandmothers; Suspense fiction; Psychological fiction
Description: I looked after Lara. We both looked after Sophie and her baby. We had to. It's not like Sophie was going to look after that baby herself. All she was interested in was weeping and wailing for her dead husband. She was so busy weeping and wailing for her dead husband that she rejected his baby who was right in front of her. When Olga's friend Lara becomes a grandmother, Olga helps out whenever she can. After all, it's a big imposition on Lara, looking after her bereaved daughter and the baby. And the new mother is not exactly considerate. But smoldering beneath Olga's sensible support and loving generosity is a deep jealous need to be the centre of Lara's attention and affection -- a need that soon becomes a consuming, dangerous and ultimately tragic obsession.
Notes: Winner of the 2020 Michael Gifkins Prize.