7 Novels by Liz Byrski
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Overview: Liz Byrski is a writer and broadcaster with more than 40 years experience in the British and Australian media. She is the author of eleven non-fiction books and six novels, and her work has been published in national and international newspapers and magazines.In the nineties Liz was a broadcaster and executive producer with ABC Radio in Perth and later an advisor to a minister in the Western Australian State Government; she now lectures in Professional and Creative Writing at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, and has PhD in writing with a focus on feminist popular fiction.
Genre: Fiction, Literature
Last Chance Café
Margot detests shopping malls. Any distraction is welcome, and the woman who has chained herself to the escalator, shouting about the perils of consumerism, is certainly that. She recognises Dot immediately – from their campaigning days, and further back still, to when Margot married Laurence.
Dot is in despair at the abandonment of the sisterhood, at the idea of pole dancing as empowerment and the sight of five-year-olds with false eyelashes and padded bras. She’s still a fierce campaigner, but she isn’t sure where to direct her rage.
Meanwhile Margot holds a haunting resentment that her youthful ambitions have always been shelved to attend to the needs of others. And as the two women turn to the past for solutions for the future, Margot’s family is in crisis. Laurence travels in a bid to repress his grief, daughter Lexie loses her job after twenty years, and younger sister Emma hides her pain with shopping binges.
With aching empathy, Liz Byrski assembles a fallible cast of characters who are asking the questions we ask ourselves. What does it mean to grow older? Are we brave enough to free ourselves from the pressure to stay young? And is there ever a stage in life when we can just be ourselves?
Bad Behaviour
Once again the focus is on the lives of older people, and this time they are separated by both time and distance. Zoe, Julia, Richard and Tom met in 1968, in a whirl of politics and protest, consciousness raising and sexual liberation, but not everyone was swept up in the spirit of the times. Zoe and Julia were looking for love, truth and their own happy endings but life is rarely that simple, and it is the misdemeanours of the past that have determined the course of their lives. Now, as the twentieth century draws to a close, the threads of the past tug at the present and blur the future. As they reflect on the way they were they must also confront who they have become, and come to terms with a younger generation who have their own dreams and must make their own mistakes. Writing Bad Behaviour was important for me because I’m really interested in how the spirit of various times can determine the course of individual lives way into the future. I wanted to revisit the sixties, particularly the spirit of 1968 and the impact of that turbulent period of social and political change on some very different people. I do hope you’ll enjoy the journey with these characters as they revisit their past and confront the challenge of a new millennium.
Trip of a Lifetime
Trip of a Lifetime is about the things that are too hard to talk about, the secrets we keep from those we love, to protect them and to protect ourselves. It’s about how those secrets can create fault lines in our relationships. I wanted to explore the impact of a violent crime dropping like a stone into the placid pool of everyday life; how far the ripples would spread, the pressure they would put on the fault lines. I wanted to see how people might change when they simply had to confront things they had failed to face, about themselves, about each other, about their relationships.
Because I enjoy writing about people, particularly women, in their fifties and beyond the focus is on them; people who have kept their secrets for a very long time, people who have left bits of themselves stuck in the past. But younger people and children have a significant part in the story because we are all part of families and circles of friends and colleagues whose lives intertwine with our own often in quite surprising ways.
Belly Dancing for Beginners
Gayle and Sonya are complete opposites; one reserved and cautious, the other confident and outspoken. But their lives will be turned upside down when they impulsively join a belly dancing class.
Marissa, their teacher, is sixty, sexy and very much her own person, and as Gayle and Sonya learn about the origins and meaning of the dance, much more than their muscle tone begins to change.
And then there are the men in their lives: Oliver, confused over why his feminist upbringing hasn’t led him to success with women; Brian, sailing blindly towards the rocks, and Frank who is battling his own demons.
Belly Dancing for Beginners is a warm-hearted, moving and often outright funny story of what can happen when women, and the men in their lives, are brave enough to reveal who they really are.
Food, Sex and Money
It’s almost forty years since they left the convent and went their separate ways, but now the old school friends are planning to meet again.
Bonnie, shattered by the death of her husband, is back in Australia after decades in Europe, and she’s discovering that while financial security eliminates worry, she seems not to have a life.
Fran, long divorced, is a struggling freelance food writer, battling to balance her diet, her bank balance and her relationship with her adult children.
And Sylvia, marooned in a long and sterile marriage to an ambitious Anglican minister, and facing a crisis that will crack her world wide open.
They had almost forgotten how it feels confide in women friends, but back together again, sharing their past lives, their secrets, their aspirations and their deepest fears Sylvia, Fran and Bonnie embark on a creative venture that will challenge everything they thought they knew about themselves and will change their lives for ever.
In the Company of Strangers
Ruby and Cat’s friendship was forged on an English dockside over sixty years ago when, both fearful, they boarded a ship bound for Australia. It was a friendship that was supposed to last a lifetime but when news of Cat’s death reaches Ruby back in London, it comes after a painful estrangement.
Declan has also drifted away from Cat, but he is forced back to his aunt’s lavender farm, Benson’s Reach, when he learns that he and Ruby are co-beneficiaries.
As these two very different people come together in Margaret River they must learn to trust each other and to deal with the staff and guests. Can the legacy of Benson’s Reach triumph over the hurt of the past? Or is Cat’s duty-laden legacy simply too much for Ruby and Declan to keep alive?
Family Secrets
Gerald’s dominating personality has loomed large over his wife, Connie, their children, Andrew and Kerry, and his sister Flora, for decades.
Connie, whose own dreams were dispensed with upon marriage, is now determined to renew her long friendship with Gerald’s estranged sister, Flora. She travels to France where she finds Flora struggling to make peace with the past and searching for a place to call home. Meanwhile Andrew’s marriage is crumbling, and Kerry is trapped in stasis by unfinished business with her father.
As the family adjusts to life after Gerald, they could not be more splintered. But there are surprises in store and secrets to unravel. And once the loss has been absorbed, is it possible that they could all find a way to start afresh with forgiveness, understanding and possibility?
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