TY - BOOK AU - Fearnley,Laurence TI - The quiet spectacular SN - 9780143574156 U1 - 823.3 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Auckland PB - Penguin KW - Female friendship KW - Fiction KW - Families KW - fast KW - Self-realization in women KW - Interpersonal relations KW - New Zealand N2 - Loretta is a school librarian, who embarks on compiling The Dangerous Book for Menopausal Women while waiting to collect her son from after-school activities. Chance is a teenager, who discovers an unusual creative outlet to offset the strain of her controlling mother. Riva is dedicated to the wetlands sanctuary she created, who is seeking a way to fulfil her promise to her dying sister to do something 'absolutely spectacular'. Within a clearing in the woods by a lake stands a den, a secret sanctuary and eventual meeting place for all three women ER -