In Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult, Diana O’Toole and her long time boyfriend Finn have been planning and saving for their dream vacation to the Galápagos for quite some time. With their fast-track careers keeping them busy–she’s an art associate specialist at Sotheby’s, he’s a surgical resident at […]
Steel’s The Butler appears to be a shift in narrative voice from her typical works, given that the central character is male and cut from a type of archaically soft mould that somehow wields power. And within chapters, it is clear that the removed panoramic style that she is famous for, […]
The Donut Trap by Julie Tieu: Jasmine has found herself in a sugary circle and no its not the donuts that she has been munching on, a year after finishing university Jasmine has no job or boyfriend in sight much to her strict Chinese parents disappointment. Which is how she finds […]
Life Unscheduled by Kirsten Rockaway: For Nicole, working for her company Virtuality and her role as Junior AI designer, are literally her entire world. Accordingly, anyone in the tech industry would kill to work there, and with state of the art exercise desks, sleep pods and a dining hall to ensure […]
See Jane Snap by Bethany Crandell: As Jane struggles to come to terms with her current reality, and the fact that she has largely been living a lie for the good part of the last 20 years, life seems to unravel a little further when she follows her husband Dan one […]
In The Happy Accidents by Jamie Beck, Artist Jess Clarke thought a weekend with her sister Liz and their best friend Chloe at Foxwoods Casino would be just the thing to cheer her up. After (barely) surviving her divorce and with her birthday looming closer, she decides they can all […]
Delia Suits Up by Amanda Aksel: When Delia feels rejected after another high profile job interview in the investment banking industry, knowing she’s about to don her professional cleaning get-up and scrub a rich man’s penthouse floor to ceiling to survive financially, she rewards herself with the only blessing in her […]
The People We Keep by Allison Larkin: Barely existing as an invisible 16 year old with dreams of becoming a musician, April’s journey was simultaneously heartbreaking and uplifting as she flees small town Little River to find the freedom and belonging she never believed she was entitled to.
In The Paris Connection by Lorraine Brown, A goof up by Hannah leaves her and her boyfriend Simon scrambling to catch their train from Italy to Amsterdam on time. They barely make it, but soon they are finally on their way to the fancy hotel where Si’s sister will be […]
The Magic of Found Objects by Maddie Dawson: Born into a contrasting world of freedom and stoicism, Woodstock versus Farm living, Phronsie agrees to marry her best friend Judd, who proposes randomly one night at their local diner figuring this is the sanest thing either of them have considered their entire dating […]