Matilda Is Missing by Caroline Overington, Bantam Australia, $32.95.
It sounds like it could be dry and grueling content — a novel about a custody fight for a little girl from a family torn apart by divorce.
Yet Matilda Is Missing is so much more than that. It is a gripping and emotional tale of love and marriage — and why we do it at all!
As the book’s description reads — “Garry Hartshorn and Softie Monaghan were never love’s young dream. Not even on their wedding day. But Softie’s body clock was ticking and Garry wanted children …”
This is a very familiar tale for thirtysomethings, as declining fertility is never far from the headlines these days.
It raises the uncomfortable question: do we always really marry for love? This story of what really goes on inside families and marriages is compelling.
Author Caroline Overington obviously draws on her experience as a columnist for The Australian and writes elegantly and with emotion about the complex and not always fair workings of the Family Court.
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