Tenderfoot
by Toni Jordan
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Brisbane, 1975: Andie Tanner's world is small but whole. Her mum is complicated, but she adores her dad and the kennel of racing greyhounds that live under their house. Andie is a serious girl with plans: finish school with her friends, then apprentice to her father until she can become a greyhound trainer, with dogs of her very own. But real life rarely goes to plan, and the world is bigger and more complex than Andie could imagine. When she loses everything she cares about - her family, show more her friends, the dogs - it's up to Andie to reclaim her future. She will need all her wits to survive this new reality of secrets and half-truths, addictions and crime. show lessTags
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Toni Jordan's Tenderfoot, I thought, would be an enjoyable undemanding novel to read while they monitored my recovery from sedation in hospital. A bit of brain fog after the fancy heart tests, but not like having a real anaesthetic. At the library I'd stumbled on the large print edition too, so I settled down to read it with ease and had read about a quarter of it by the time I was allowed to go home.
It turned out to be as expected: smart working class kid coping with family breakup and friend/ex-friend issues at school. At home that night, I finished Thirst first (only because I'd listed it in #20BooksOfWinter), and the next day returned to Tenderfoot.
And found it taking a much darker turn than I'd thought. Maybe I'd had more brain show more fog than I realised...
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2026/06/28/tenderfoot-2025-by-toni-jordan/ show less
It turned out to be as expected: smart working class kid coping with family breakup and friend/ex-friend issues at school. At home that night, I finished Thirst first (only because I'd listed it in #20BooksOfWinter), and the next day returned to Tenderfoot.
And found it taking a much darker turn than I'd thought. Maybe I'd had more brain show more fog than I realised...
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2026/06/28/tenderfoot-2025-by-toni-jordan/ show less
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