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All the girls talked of marriage one day. Of romance and fluttering hearts and the places they'd call home. Ruby believed that being a wife was an unlikely scenario for her. The face after all would be something of a deterrent.
In Melbourne in 1910, Ruby Pearl Hart is born into a family that does not want her. Failing to appreciate her gifts, all they see is the raspberry birthmark on her face.
Cast out, Ruby finds a makeshift family with the colourful misfits populating her Aunt's home, the Mary Street Terrace. Here, her intelligence, creativity and hope are allowed to thrive.
But when tragedy strikes, Ruby's ambitions for her life seem dashed. It's not until she is forced to move from Melbourne to Launceston that she comes to understand the battle for women's freedom is still being waged - and for some, life is much, much worse.
Exiled in this small town, she meets a group of artists and writers who call themselves 'The Aphorism Club'. Unique, clever and bohemian, they too are broken and cut adrift. In them, Ruby finally finds a safe harbour where she can dream, dance and reach for a life beyond social expectations.
In Tracey Lee's The Aphorism Club, there are forces working against Ruby that will take more than hope to overcome. In an unprecedented shift, Ruby is given a choice - but can she hope to make the right one in a world determined to keep her down?
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978-1-923517-34-9 (9781923517349)
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Tracey Lee is a published author who has been writing since she was eight-years-old. The Lily O'Hara Mystery Series has been widely praised for its addictive storylines and its keen observation of family dynamics. A prolific writer, Tracey intends to continue this series and is publishing her new, independent novel, The Aphorism Club, in December 2025. Her book takes its title from the writing group which was founded by Tracey and a group of close friends in 1994. This group and the work they did together, including publishing an anthology in 1999, remain integral to Tracey's writing process. Tracey holds a highly distinguished, 38-year career as an English/Behavioural Science teacher who has taught in Tasmania, Western Australia, Canberra and most recently in New South Wales. In 2005, Tracey completed a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Canberra. Both her teaching and writing are interested in what motivates human behaviour and what maintains equilibrium, as well as the disturbances that threaten this balance. Her fiction often follows ordinary people as they face extraordinary circumstances. Since retiring from the classroom, Tracey has run several writing sessions at local libraries, joined the Eurobodalla Writers Group and hosted local panel discussions for International Women's Day and Crime Writers of the Eurobodalla. Living on the far south coast of NSW, she now spends most of her time writing in her.
