The Scent of Oranges is Joan Zawatzky’s first book and was short listed for the Australian Books Alive Program in 2007. I was initially drawn to the book because I grew up in an area where Orange blossoms marked the boundary of county. You woke up to the smell of oranges on a pretty regular basis throughout the year – whether it was blossoms or the smell of burned orange peels from the Tropicana plant. There was just something familiar to me about the title.
The Scent of Oranges kept my attention, though I am not sure I would say I was engrossed in the book. The book starts out with Linda’s return to South Africa after having moved to Australia nineteen years earlier. She is drawn back by her father’s death. [read more…]
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