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Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 Spring Clean for the Peach Queen
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Twelve years had passed since the last Bonnievale Harvest Ball. I was eighteen then, still finishing high school when I was chosen as the Peach Queen. They crowned me with a peach-blossom coronet. And I was eighteen when I left, intending never to live in Bonnievale again.

'One tanked career, one badly timed glamour shoot and one dead boyfriend later, thirty-year-old Lottie Bentz is finally going home.

'In the orchard town where she grew up, Lottie tries to purify and declutter her life, Kondo-style. She gets rid of her phone, clears out her old stuff, and swears off make-up, mirrors and lying. But home has its own problems, and Lottie's staunchly feminist mother is furious about Lottie's risque photos appearing in a magazine.

'When kindly old Mrs Brooker offers Lottie a place to stay, it's not what Lottie expects and she finds herself earning her keep in a clapped-out caravan on the Brooker farm, teaching the old woman about the Kondo method. But after Angus, the taciturn heir to the Brooker orchards, makes it clear that Lottie is not welcome, she soon begins to uncover secrets and half-truths surrounding the dotty Mrs Brooker, Angus's failed marriage and his dead father. And even though Angus has a life-threatening bee-sting allergy, he refuses to wear a veil when tending his bees. Why is he so bent on self-destruction?

'As Lottie learns to cleanse herself and those around her, she reconnects with what's really important and she encounters a few surprises along the way.

'This beautifully nuanced, slow-burn love story deals with failed expectations, second chances, grief and the importance of family and community.' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Seaforth, Manly - Allambie - Curl Curl area, Sydney Northeastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Pantera Press , 2021 .
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      Extent: 364p.
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      • Published March 2021
      ISBN: 9780648676942

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Works about this Work

Possibilities of Resistance : Three Narratives of Women’s Experience Susan Midalia , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 433 2021; (p. 41-42)

— Review of Spring Clean for the Peach Queen Sasha Wasley , 2021 single work novel ; All That I Remember about Dean Cola Tania Chandler , 2021 single work novel ; Catch Us the Foxes Nicola West , 2021 single work novel

'Three recent novels by Australian women deal with current and increasingly urgent political questions about female identity and embodiment. They each use the conventions of popular realist fiction to provoke thought about the causes of female disempowerment and the struggle for self-determination. Coincidentally, they are also set, or partially set, in Australian country towns, although their locations are markedly different, and their plots culminate in the revelation of disturbing secrets.' (Introduction)

Possibilities of Resistance : Three Narratives of Women’s Experience Susan Midalia , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 433 2021; (p. 41-42)

— Review of Spring Clean for the Peach Queen Sasha Wasley , 2021 single work novel ; All That I Remember about Dean Cola Tania Chandler , 2021 single work novel ; Catch Us the Foxes Nicola West , 2021 single work novel

'Three recent novels by Australian women deal with current and increasingly urgent political questions about female identity and embodiment. They each use the conventions of popular realist fiction to provoke thought about the causes of female disempowerment and the struggle for self-determination. Coincidentally, they are also set, or partially set, in Australian country towns, although their locations are markedly different, and their plots culminate in the revelation of disturbing secrets.' (Introduction)

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