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Local Time-bookcover

By: Fleur Lind

Local Time

Pages: 459 Ratings: 4.5
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The zesty staff and 'locals' at Carrisbrook are at it again!

Sophia is preoccupied with wedding plans and building extensions, when the lads go AWOL. The locals cook up a storm, and Dorothy and the girls become accessories to grand theft. Stuart, the newly-hired groundsman, has everyone fooled when he plays his deceptive card. Hank has the ideal wedding venue, but who are the dubious duo on the guest list?

A new local, Percy arrives bringing a bag of agendas and prejudice. Clementine goes into battle, and karma catches up at Carrisbrook.

To top it all off, the PTM Mk2 falls into the wrong hands at the White House. Who didn't read the instructions first?

Local Time brings new characters, new dramas, surprises and romance. With the keel anything but even on this last sail, get ready for more mayhem, chaos and fun on the good ship Carrisbrook.


New Zealand born and raised, Fleur met her Aussie beau on her side of the Tasman; they have two children and their black Burmese cat ‘Brina’.

From a clerical/sales/fitness background, Fleur wanted a complete change and took the aged care industry head on, and as green as grass.

Being the youngest of 5 siblings, having older-aged parents, she stepped comfortably into her role as carer in rest homes and in the community environment. Nine years on, she loves her job and hasn’t looked back.

With adult-aged children living their lives in NZ, but with scope to cross the Tasman, Fleur and her beau now live in Queensland, Australia, with Indy – the family’s black, furry, feline addition.

 

A new writer, ideas continue to fuel her passion for writing, which includes regular short stories submitted to The Warwick Daily News.

Customer Reviews
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  • Kerri Stone

    I enjoyed this book immensely. Working in aged care, I totally got involved in the story. The four best mates with their antics made me smile, how can four elderly men go missing? Clementine the cat also rates a star. Every facility needs a pet and Max. How he loves his job! The ladies are not so innocent either. Broad daylight robbery! Read, relax and join the close relationships within this facility and feel that you are part of them.

  • Mary O’Neill - Retirement Village Manager

    I invited Fleur to our Retirement Village for one of our regular morning teas as a guest speaker. Almost all of the residents turned up because they were quite intrigued when I told them it was about the antics of Residents that lived in a Rest Home, there were lots of questions for Fleur about “Local Time” after morning tea.

    Two of our residents and I immediately went out and purchased the book. You will find yourself laughing out loud and not being able to get anything else done, you simply cannot put it down, so the housework will have to wait!

    Not only is this the funniest book that I have read in a long time, it makes you wonder if the antics at “Carisbrook” happen inside the walls of other Rest homes, they have so much fun and get into such much mischief, and I cannot wait to see what happens with “Percy”. I hope there is another book.

    I honestly loved it that much that I purchased another two copies, one for my niece and the other for my best friend who both work in the Aged Care sector.

    Just because you get older doesn’t mean that you stop having fun especially at “Carisbrook”.

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