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All Together Now

By: Monica McInerney
Narrated by: Catherine Milte
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From the internationally bestselling author of Those Faraday Girls comes All Together Now, a collection of Monica McInerney's short fiction gathered for the first time. Including several of her earliest magazine short stories, contributions to recent anthologies, her warm and witty novella Odd One Out, and two new stories, this is a book to inspire and delight fans of all ages.

2009, Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) General Fiction Book of the Year, Short-listed

©2008 Monica McInerney (P)2009 Bolinda Publishing Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Short Story

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Editor reviews

Monica McInerney’s obsessions include family, memory, and love...in short, the great universal themes. Performed by Catherine Milte in a slightly smoky Australian accent that works very well for these tales of mostly mature women, All Together Now is a collection of short pieces published elsewhere over a 10-year period. The collection includes one story featuring Lola, a character McInerney fans will recognize from The Alphabet Sisters and Lola’s Secret, and one novella called "Odd One Out", about a woman on a treasure hunt in Melbourne.

Critic reviews

"Sparkling stories filled with warmth and wit." (The Launceston Examiner)
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This book, narrated by Catherine Milte, was enjoyable enough, well read, but mediocre. Fine for listening to while doing mundane tasks like the laundry, but sadly, it really didn't do anything more to grab my attention.

It comprised a number of short stories and one novella, two of which were original to the book but the remainder of which had been previously published elsewhere.
Of these, my favourite was the first, Hippy Hippy Shake, a short comment on radical clothing fads, with a clever twist at the end. The other one that stuck with me was Sweet Charity, centring around another dressing disaster, Lola, the outrageously clad granny who runs a charity shop, and her sense of justice.

Unfortunately, not a collection to get excited about.

Mediocre collection of stories

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