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Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 The Near Miss
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'Grace, hardworking and tired, wants another baby. But she's dealing with debt, a manic 4-year-old and a jobless husband determined to make his inventions into reality. Can they both get their way, or will competing dreams tear their marriage apart?

'Eddy analyses risk for a living, but his insecurities have brought his own life to a halt. He won't let go of the flighty, unfaithful Romy, but will he ever risk believing in himself?

'Melody is trying to raise her son Skip in the city while holding true to her hippie lifestyle. But will past mistakes and judgement from other parents force her to leave her beliefs behind?

'This is a story about real life aspirations, and whether you can chase your dreams at the same time as raising children and paying the bills. It's about friendship, and how the people you meet in a moment can change your life forever.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Notes

  • Epigraph:

    In the security born of many harmless marriages, it had been forgotten that Love is no hothouse flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet night, born of an hour of sunshine, sprung from wild seed, blown along the road by a wild wind. -The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney South, South Sydney area, Sydney Southern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Impulse , 2015 .
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      Extent: 238p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Ebook only.
      • Published 19 October 2015.
      ISBN: 9781460706091, 1460706099

Works about this Work

Chick Lit Delivers Goods Stephanie Pegler , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 8 December 2015; (p. 6)
Chick Lit Delivers Goods Stephanie Pegler , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 8 December 2015; (p. 6)
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