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Tricia Stringer

The Road Trip by Tricia Stringer

The Road Trip by Tricia Stringer

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Sharyn Tregonning expects a glamorous 60th birthday holiday—but when her husband Barry turns it into a caravan trip from Adelaide to Broome, the journey is anything but smooth. Along for the ride are Barry’s friend Ray and Ray’s reclusive sister Kathleen, whose shared tensions and hidden resentments begin to unravel across the Kimberley. A dead body at a luxe resort forces past wounds and secrets to surface.

Published 30 September 2025, The Road Trip is a warm, sometimes biting exploration of family friction, unexpected friendship, and how distance can bring you closer. You’ll feel the red dust under tyres, hear caravans creak, smell the gin shared around a campfire. Tropes: reluctant road trip, enemies to friends, family reckonings.

What you are getting

  • Format: Paperback 
  • Pages: 480
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
  • Imprint: HQ Fiction AU 
  • ISBN: 9781867247760 
  • Publication date: 30 September 2025
  • Condition: New

Why this book matters
Stringer captures how ordinary journeys can strain relationships to breaking point—then force reckonings no one expected. The Road Trip shows that faults in friendship, marriage and self-worth often lie dormant until travel demands more than comfort allows. It’s a road-story with heart but with sharp edges.

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Blurb

Sharyn Tregonning wanted a holiday somewhere glamorous for her 60th birthday. So when her husband Barry surprises her with a caravan trip from Adelaide to Broome, she is furious - and bitterly disappointed. Even worse, Barry's annoying friend Ray and Ray's reclusive frumpy sister Kathleen are coming along.

It's true that Kathleen Allenby has become a recluse. As the end-of-life carer for three family members (and at war with her mean neighbours) she has become anxious. She doesn't expect this trip to offer her much. Sharyn has always looked down on her, and Kathleen has never liked her (or her bitchy friends).

But as a series of mishaps and accidents, overflowing toilets and destination disagreements test boundaries and fray tempers, the two women share a bottle of gin and begin to bond over the highs and lows of caravan life and their irritation with their menfolk as they travel through the magnificent Kimberley towards magical Broome. When a body surfaces at a luxe resort, it brings their grudges and hurts out into the open, and the women realise that it's not just the men's future - or behaviour - that needs to change.

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