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The Fancies Audiobook Summary
Abigail Fancy returns to the tiny town that the Fancys have ruled for decades, fresh from her second stint in prison and utterly out of time… A bold, punchy and wry novel from the author of The Other Side of Beautiful.
A story about stories: those we tell, those we believe and those we make into a reality, whether true, murky or not true at all.
Port Kingerton: the insular cray-fishing town at the butt-end of South Australia, where everyone knows everyone. And everyone knows too that when Abigail Fancy left town at seventeen, she hung out the window of her boyfriend’s Corolla, middle fingers held high, swearing she’d never come back. And she hasn’t, until now.
At her parents’ house Abigail finds a party (read town meeting) in full swing over something iffy found on the beach – a thighbone. And although iffy things aren’t uncommon in Port Kingerton, Abigail’s surprise arrival forces a family – and an entire town – to unpack a twenty-four-year-old secret that rocked this tiny place to its core: that time they found something much iffier …
Through Abigail, her grandfather Old Dick Fancy’s unreliable memories and the collective voices of the town itself, Port Kingerton unravels as old wounds are picked open, skeletons fall from closets and unlikely bonds are forged. But will Abigail finally change the past …?
Fresh, punchy, expertly crafted and deliciously wry – the author of The Other Side of Beautiful returns with a tour de force of a small-town mystery where a homecoming lifts the veil on a time when a town failed to stand up for its girls.
PRAISE FOR KIM LOCK:
‘The Fancies is a wonder. A brilliantly observed, laugh-out-loud funny, page-turner with a tender heart and a spine of the finest feminist steel.’ – Emily Maguire, acclaimed author of An Isolated Incident
‘Tender, funny and quietly profound, The Other Side of Beautiful is a breath of fresh air.’ – The Sunday Times
‘A colourful, engaging story of escape and road-trip adventure … also compellingly cinematic and features an endearing narrator-heroine with plenty of meaty real-world troubles.’ – Sydney Morning Herald
‘An engaging story about second chances and a life changing road trip … a heart-warming story.’ – Canberra Weekly magazine
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The Fancies Audiobook Narrator
Nicole Gulasekharam is the narrator of The Fancies audiobook that was written by Kim Lock
About the Author(s) of The Fancies
Kim Lock is the author of The Fancies
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The Fancies Full Details
| Narrator | Nicole Gulasekharam |
| Length | 10 hours 39 minutes |
| Author | Kim Lock |
| Category | |
| Publisher | HarperAudio |
| Release date | April 05, 2023 |
| ISBN | 9781460746400 |
Subjects
The publisher of the The Fancies is HarperAudio. includes the following subjects: Homecoming, community, mystery, funny, laugh out loud, witty, quirky, stories, lies, secret, scandal, friendship, family, relationship, romance, rivalry, lonely, loneliness, isolation, hopeful, journey, comedy, warm, uplifting, rural, country, escape, trauma, grief, healing, recovery, other side of beautiful, lost flowers, alice hart, lost and found, rosie project, eleanor oliphant, bellbird river, ladies swimming circle, best kind of beautiful, single ladies, jacaranda retirement village, fairvale ladies bookclub, anxious people, man called ove, britt marie was here, hundred year old man, graeme simsion, gail honeyman, holly ringland, frances whiting, brooke davis, sophie green, joanna nell, jonas jonasson, beth o’leary, jess dettmann, australian, , Fiction, Humorous, Fiction, Family Life The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Humorous
Additional info
The publisher of the The Fancies is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9781460746400.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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