About Turns

This novel, with its humorous insights into New Zealand women and their allegiances, will have you and your friends laughing in unison. Irene has a secret. It slips out inadvertently during book club when the wine has been flowing too freely. Her teenage years as a marching girl are not something she had wanted her friend Ferrida to know about. She s always wanted Ferrida s approval, for her friendship is as important and fraught asthe one with Paula, when they marched together all those years ago. But friends don t necessarily march to the same beat, and Irene finds it hard to keep step.