Cirrus@Austlit

'This book is for every woman who's been told success is as simple as Lean In, Say Yes, Live Your Best Life, Beat Your Fear, Follow Your Dream... and then feel #soblessed.

'It's for guilty friends, bad mums, crap wives, imperfect feminists, rebellious daughters and any girl with a big mouth and at least one foot in it.

'It's for any woman who's ever asked: 'Am I the only one who isn't quite coping?'

'Here is Mia Freedman's low road to the top - a fearless, hilarious, inspiring and surprising collection of modern misadventures to read, relate to and rejoice in, then share with all the women in your life.' (Publication summary)

'When you've lost a baby, the path you must travel is yours alone. There's no shortcut. No Bandaid. No silver lining. But by hearing from others who have walked that same path, the blackness is illuminated just a little. We've been there. We know how you feel. We can't change what's happened and we can't bring back your baby, but we can light your way through the dark.' (Publication summary)

'"Sometimes, when I meet someone new and I tell them I'm a writer, they ask 'What do you write about?' Tricky question. It's a lot like asking a woman who's just come home from a girl's dinner 'What did you talk about?' The short answer? EVERYTHING."

'When Mia Freedman talks, people listen. Perhaps not her husband. Or her children. But other people. Women. Mia has a knack for putting into words the dilemmas, delights and dramas of women everywhere. The new rules for dating in the internet-romance age? Yep, tricky stuff. Things are not what they used to be. And sex talk at the dinner table? Appropriate or not? Perhaps not, unless in an educational capacity and even then some things are best left unsaid . . . And what about Botox, Brazilians, and boobs that are not as fabulous as they once were? With intrepid curiosity and a delicious sense of humour, Mia navigates her way through the topics - great and small - of modern life.

'Mia Culpa is funny, moving and just like one long, wonderful dinner-party conversation.' (From the publisher's website.)