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You are here: Home / Entertainment / The View from the Balcony by Janette Paul – Book Review

The View from the Balcony by Janette Paul – Book Review

4 May 2025 by Dee Young Leave a Comment

The View from the Balcony book review
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The View From The Balcony by Janette Paul – Andie has no memory whatsoever of the man who pushed her out of the way of a speeding car and saved her life!

A week before Coral’s biggest career highlight, her mum has a nasty fall!

And the last thing Mara wants is to be assigned to work at the hospital bedside of the much-despised senior partner of her law firm!

However unwilling, Andie, Coral and Mara all become daily visitors to the three patients at the end of the East Wing of Hepburn House Rehabilitation Hospital. They soon discover a balcony that connects the three rooms and provides a place of quietness and healing. But, more than that, it is also a place where lives will interconnect and be changed forever.

This is a wonderfully heart-warming novel about three women of differing ages in very different situations, who are brought together by equally differing circumstances. The narrative draws the reader into these diverse situations so unobtrusively that said reader can not only relate to each situation, but also longs to help solve the problems that occur.

This novel has been written by an author who can create instant empathy, and also bring out the best in her readers.

A definite must-read for 2025!

ISBN: 9781761263910

The View From The Balcony is available in paperback, e-book and audiobook.

About Janettte Paul

Janette Paul is an internationally published author of contemporary women’s fiction and romantic comedy, and is the alter ego of award-winning suspense author Jaye Ford. Her first novel won two Davitt Awards for Australian women crime writers and her books have been translated into nine languages. She is a former news and sport journalist, was the first woman to host a live national sport show on Australian TV and ran her own public relations consultancy before turning to fiction. She now writes from her home in Newcastle, New South Wales.

Filed Under: Books, Entertainment Tagged With: book, family life, fiction, friendship, modern, review, romance

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