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“She finds more ways to be funny than I could count, yet she can cast a light into a dark corner before you know she's done it.” Nick EarlsDaisy is married to her job, Shirley de Young is engaged to Jack but would as soon be married to herself, while Joannie has left her husband for a fling with the movie star, Ralph Fiennes. Brad is inspired by the Eureka uprising to break up with his girlfriend, and an unexpected influx of babies - two thousand of them - calls into question the meaning of Jenny's life.Flitting from Sydney to Melbourne, Canberra to California, this loosely linked collection of stories shines a bright fluorescent light on family, friendships, work, love and loss.
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More News & BlogCatherine Harris Nominated for The Barbara Jefferis Award
by Random House Australia on 10 March 2011
Catherine Harris has been shortlisted for her collection of moving and funny short stories in LIKE BEING A WIFE at this year’s Barbara Jefferis Award. Administered by the Australian Society of Authors (ASA), The Barbara Jefferis Award is an annual award offered to the best novel written by an Australian author that depicts women and girls in a positive light. The winner will be announced...
Debut authors, Catherine Harris and Maggie MacKellar are amongst those shortlisted for the 2011 The Age Book of the Year Awards. Catherine Harris, author of the witty and warm collection of short stories in LIKE BEING A WIFE has been included in the fiction category. While Maggie MacKellar’s WHEN IT RAINS, a heart-wrenching but triumphant story of rebuilding a life and a family, has been included...
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