Grace's Table

Overview

Grace has not had 12 people at her table for a long time; hers isn't the kind of family who share regular Sunday meals. But it isn't every day you turn 70. As Grace prepares the feast, she reflects on her life, her marriage, and her friendships. When the three generations come together, simmering tensions from the past threaten to boil over. The one thing that no one can talk about is the one thing that no one can forget. Grace's Table is a moving and often funny novel about the power of memory and the family rituals that define us.

Reviews

"The characters of elderly Grace and her girlfriends will draw readers to Grace's Table like bees to honey cake. These women don't heed the rules for ageing quietly, and they pull us into their past and present with their wisecracking talk, acerbic wit, and the quiet wisdom of their lives. But the younger characters in Grace's difficult family, street-smart, funny, nearly upstage them over a long lunch in which food is a character itself, filling this fine novel with the after-taste of roast garlicky lamb, sponge cake straight from a country fair, tomatoes fresh from the vine."  —Kristina Olsson, author, Boy, Lost

Author Biography

Sally Piper is a writer whose work has been published in the anthology One Book Many Brisbanes, and in numerous writing journals, literary magazines, and the Weekend Australian. Grace's Table was short-listed in the 2011 Queensland Premiers Literary Award's emerging Queensland author category.