Cirrus@Austlit

'What happens when you want to stop feeling like you’re never enough?

'A Good Girl is acutely aware of everyone’s emotional state. Except her own.

'She was praised for not being difficult like other girls.

'She must never get too big for her boots and always be grateful. So damn grateful.

'She masks her own needs, dreams and fears so thoroughly that she loses herself.

'Until one day her smile falters, her serenity cracks and a tiny, long-forgotten little voice dares to whisper, “What about me?”

'And then all hell will break loose.

'Bestselling author of Raising Girls Who Like Themselves Kasey Edwards has helped thousands of families raise kids to believe in themselves. She decides it’s time to apply her research and strategies to herself.

'Her journey of learning to like herself unpicks the worth-crushing beliefs taught to girls.

'But it’s not just Kasey’s story. It’s about all of us.

'Raw, irreverent, and deeply relatable, Kasey dares to say what many women think but few say out loud.

'This poignant memoir will confirm what you’ve long suspected — that you deserve more. And it will show you how to rediscover who you were always meant to be. Then you too can say, "Goodbye good girl, hello me."'  (Publication summary)

'Chess Raven is a hacker who has grown up with nothing and no one. Her parents died when she was three and her foster care situation turned out badly – very badly. But on her sixteenth birthday, her life is turned upside down.

'Chess learns her mother was Queen of the Fae and her father was a brilliant physicist. The unique blend of her mother’s fairy blood and her father’s humanity gives Chess – and Chess alone – the ability to unlock a mysterious vessel that will unleash unimagined powers – with devastating consequences. Thrown into a new world where nothing is at it seems, Chess must work out who to trust as vying forces race to control her. Or kill her.

'Reunited with her childhood friend Tom Williams, an enigmatic shape-shifting unicorn, Chess discovers love for the first time and is prepared to risk her life for it. But first she must learn to overcome a fear of her own power and stop waiting for other people to save her. She is the one she's been waiting for.' (Publication summary)

'An irreverent and self-deprecating memoir by a successful and ambitious career woman who woke up one morning and realised she didn't want to go to work - not just that day, but ever again. Kasey Edwards had a glamorous, successful and highly coveted career, flying around the world consulting to blue-chip organisations and commanding a six-figure salary. But all of a sudden her job didn't seem quite so challenging or glamorous, the role she'd been playing as a high-powered business woman felt phoney, and her whole life lost its zing.

'Kasey embarked on a journey of discovery into why she'd lost her purpose and meaning, and what she needed to do to find it again. Kasey also follows the story of her best friend, Emma, a senior marketing executive suffering a similar crisis. Both Emma and Kasey are well and truly over it, yet their approaches - and the results - are very different.

'Written with great honesty and wit, Thirty Something and Over It is a memoir for modern women seeking the key to life, love and happiness.' (Publication summary)