The Broadhurst sisters, book editor Emily and stay-at-home wife and mother Jill, are suffering severe cases of the-grass-is-always-greener syndrome.So, when Melbourne Cup Day rolls around, they decide to have an each way bet by trading places. But then they find they have to cope with an elusive pregnancy test, vegetable-flavoured punch, flying carpet bowls, a predatory femme fatale, a foul-mouthed three-year-old, and argumentative and accident-prone teenagers.Spend a madca...

Nefarious Doings - US language editionWelcome to the sleepy town of Majic, where the neighborhood watch is a killer...For Nell Forrest, life in the little town of Majic is not going smoothly. One of her five daughters has just swapped college for fruit-picking, another is about to hit puberty, while a third keeps leaving aggrieved messages on the answering machine. On top of all this, her mother is infuriating and it's only been a matter of months since Nell lost her husb...

Two women abduct and hide out with their four-year-old granddaughter Avery, who they suspect is being harmed. They both love Avery ... shame they can't stand each other. A wise and witty novel for readers of Sophie Green and Brooke Davis.What would you do to protect a child?Beth's daughter Cleo and Shirley's son Daniel used to be married. Now Cleo is in gaol for supposedly contravening a family violence order, and Daniel has full-time care of their...

Once upon a time Chris Beggs and her husband had a dream - to one day own a farm, with cows and poultry and a crisp white fence surrounding a quaint cottage. So what could possibly be wrong with fulfilling that dream 15 years later as a 38-year-old divorced mother of two?It was love at first sight. While on a family outing with her two children Grace and Michael, ex-husband Garth and his new girlfriend Cynthia, Chris happens upon a picture of the perfect country cottage in the Heal...

Packing up her mother's life, George instead unpacks her own... A deeply insightful and wryly funny story perfect for readers of Meredith Jaffe and The Weekend by Charlotte Wood.Things you might be surprised to find when cleaning out your deceased mother's house:a secret diarya family mysterya new lease on life.Grief-stricken middle-aged sisters George, Kat and Annie give themselves a week to pack up their c...

"Because sometimes coffee isn't nearly enough and you have to take a deep breath, maintain control, and assess the situation...or just reach for the scotch."The twice-divorced mother of three is back. New, improved and stronger than ever-but still struggling to keep her head above water, even in the bath.And what a week it is in the Riley/Brown/McNeill household. There's one wedding, two babies, three engagements and four birthdays. Then ex-ex-husband Alex's long-a...

She'd worn white to her wedding… Huge clouds of frosted white that billowed around her in the wind like fairy tale snow. But now the fairytale has ended and Mattie Hampton's marriage is over, or so she thinks.

Nefarious Doings - UK/AUS language editionWelcome to the sleepy town of Majic, where the neighborhood watch is a killer...For Nell Forrest, life in the little town of Majic is not going smoothly. One of her five daughters has just swapped college for fruit-picking, another is about to hit puberty, while a third keeps leaving aggrieved messages on the answering machine. On top of all this, her mother is infuriating and it's only been a matter of months since...

Unlike her best friend Camilla Riley, compulsive list-maker Terry Diamond prides herself on her organisational abilities. Also unlike Camilla, Terry is tall, blonde, curvaceous and self-confident.However, all this doesn't stop chaos bursting into her life when her daughter not only gives birth on Terry's living-room rug but decides to move home with infant in tow.Then there are the problems Terry is having with her love life, as she realises her boyfriend - a handyman who w...

Ever had one of those weeks when you've been soaked, put through the ringer & hung out to dry?On Monday morning, this twice-divorced mother of three was bemoaning her boring life that left her feeling deflated and unhappy. By the end of the week she wishes that was all she had to worry about.In the space of seven days her life is picked up and spun around when she discovers her mother's getting married again (for the fourth time), her older sister is pregnant again (for the...

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me."What a ridiculous saying."Jenny nodded. "Bruises heal, eventually, but the words - they're there forever.""Actually the words are like sticks and stones," said Fiona quietly. "Sharp and spiky and painful. Like little missiles."Maddie had thought the support group might help her. But with a sense of almost giddy relief she can't identify at all with these w...

'Dammit, Tess, he doesn't seem worth protecting.''I'm not protecting him, Sarge,' she said. She dropped her gaze, biting her lip, and for the first time in his experience she spoke in a small voice. 'I'm protecting me.'For police officers Steve Fraser and Tess Ballard, a split-second decision saves the lives of fifty members of a cult - but also puts their careers on the line. Tess's work is everything to her; she's forged a new life through sheer determin...