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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Returning to Adelaide
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'Adelaide Jones is about to taste the sweet life.

'Raising her 5-year-old twins is getting easier and her husband, Joe, is selling his IT company for an ungodly sum. Then, it all begins to implode. Not only are her closest friends facing insurmountable challenges but the rock of her own marriage is crumbling.

'Could her quest to be indispensable to her husband have rendered her invisible instead?

'‘Maybe it’s time Joe learned just how pampered his life is.’

'When Alec, an unrequited love from the past, invites her to the Greek Islands, she flees on a whim. Here in Ikaria, with bass beating in time with her heart, she isn’t a wife or mother, just a woman thrust into a strange new world.

'But when her feelings for Alec reignite, despite his burgeoning love affair with world-famous house act DJ Allora, Adelaide redirects her attention to local bartender Xena and the exquisite artisanal embroidery her family produce.

'It’s been years since the beauty of textiles has stirred these feelings in her and she’s startled to realise just how far off course her life has veered. But even in paradise things aren’t always what they seem and Adelaide finds herself deeply enmeshed in the lives of her new friends.

'Responsibility comes calling

'Just as Adelaide is succumbing to old passions and getting reacquainted with the promising woman she once was, responsibility comes calling. Now she has to stop trying to solve everyone else’s problems and face the tatters of her own life.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Wallsend, Wallsend - Black Hill area, Newcastle, Newcastle - Hunter Valley area, New South Wales,: Hawkeye Publishing , 2022 .
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      Extent: 234p.
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      • Published 1 March 2022.
      ISBN: 9780645309942

Works about this Work

Debut Novel a Love Letter to Greek Heritage Iris Papathanasiou , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Neos Kosmos , May 2022;

— Review of Returning to Adelaide Anne Freeman , 2022 single work novel

'A novel set in the island of Ikaria in Greece, with a half-Greek Australian protagonist couldn’t have come at a better time.'(Introduction)

Debut Novel a Love Letter to Greek Heritage Iris Papathanasiou , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Neos Kosmos , May 2022;

— Review of Returning to Adelaide Anne Freeman , 2022 single work novel

'A novel set in the island of Ikaria in Greece, with a half-Greek Australian protagonist couldn’t have come at a better time.'(Introduction)

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