Edie in my book ‘Sex, Lies and Bonsai’ has just fled Sydney and moved back to her home town, a small village on the north coast of New South Wales. As she re-discovers, no one is anonymous in a small town…
Here’s a short extract.
“The nice part about living in Darling Head, as opposed to Sydney, is that you do know who you are dealing with. I sometimes think our town is like the twelve days of Christmas. On the twelfth day of Christmas, Darling Head sent to me:
Twelve trained baristas
Eleven school teachers
Ten sporty nurses
Nine well-dressed lawyers
Eight pretty hair dressers
Seven fashion retailers
Six surfing doctors
Five real estate agents
Four surfboard shapers
Three drug dealers
Two millionaire developers
And a milkman in a white van
To be honest, you don’t normally see that many lawyers and I think there might be more than three drug dealers, but you get the picture. In our town, no-one is anonymous.”
How about your town?
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Happy Christmas and best wishes for the season.
I’m glad you have the most important on the top of that list. Good coffee is one of life’s little essentials.
Mm, keep those baristas coming
http://www.lisawalker.com.au ‘Sex, Lies and Bonsai’ – HarperCollins January 1st 2013