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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 How To Be Second Best
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'Going from one child to two is never all that easy for a family, but when Emma's husband simultaneously fathers a third child three doors up the street, things get very tricky, very fast.

'No longer is it enough for Emma to be the best wife and mother - now she's trying to be the best ex-wife, and the best part-time parent to her ex's love child, and that's before she even thinks about adding a new bloke to the mix.

'Set in an upwardly mobile, ultra-competitive suburb, this is a funny, biting, heartwarming modern comedy that looks at the roles we play, how we compete, and what happens when we dare to strive for second-best.'

Source: publisher's blurb.

Notes

  • Dedication:

    For my mother Carol and my grandmother Mims.

    Two of a kind, and two of the kindest.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney South, South Sydney area, Sydney Southern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: HarperCollins Australia , 2018 .
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      Extent: 368p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 17 December 2018.

      ISBN: 9781460755969, 1460755960
    • Sydney South, South Sydney area, Sydney Southern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: HarperCollins Australia , 2019 .
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      Extent: 416p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 30 December 2012.
      ISBN: 9781460755976 (pbk), 1460755979 (pbk)
    • Toronto, Ontario,
      c
      Canada,
      c
      Americas,
      :
      HarperCollins (Canada) ,
      2021 .
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      Alternative title: Second Best : A Novel
      Extent: 368p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 5 April 2021.
      ISBN: 9781443460118

Other Formats

  • Dyslexic edition.

Works about this Work

Jessican Dettman : How to Be Second Best Ashley Kalagian Blunt , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , July 2019;

— Review of How To Be Second Best Jessica Dettmann , 2018 single work novel
Jessican Dettman : How to Be Second Best Ashley Kalagian Blunt , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , July 2019;

— Review of How To Be Second Best Jessica Dettmann , 2018 single work novel
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