Barbara Trapido writes brilliant stories centred around families. The only bad thing about her is that you have to wait years for a new book. Good news! Her new book, Sex and Stravinsky has just arrived. It’s the story of Caroline, a beautiful tall girl from Melbourne who travels to London in the late 1970s as a student, meets Josh and they marry. Now it’s twenty years later, their twelve year old daughter Zoe wants to learn ballet, and Caroline’s mother is living nearby. Nothing Caroline can do is ever good enough for this awful woman and Caroline takes a long time to suspect there is a way to break free. It’s a lovely story.
