Lunch with the Generals

I read this a few years ago and still recall how effectively the narrator draws you in. A story of four friends who meet every Thursday in the (now) trendy innerwest suburb of Leichhardt, known to local residents as Sydney's Little Italy. Through powerful storytelling both the characters, and the reader, travel from entertainment to realization that each of us has a life-journey, which can appear banal ...or bizarre ...depending more on our current perspective, than the story itself. A worthwhile read, not everything or everyone is as they first appear.