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Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 Other People's Diaries
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'Alice Day's theory has led to five strangers meeting in a bar to take part in her experiment. But can this one-time bestselling author, now a mother and housewife, follow through and change their lives for the better (and perhaps her own as well)?

'The strangers are a working mother stretched to breaking point, a childless woman whose only solace is fashion, a divorced father, a teacher who hates her job but loves a married man and a widow in her 60s hiding a painful secret.

'It is the little things that make life worth living, or so Alice's theory goes. Her aim is to see if the tasks she emails each group member can slowly turn their lives around.

'But with any experiment, there are outcomes. The small changes Alice suggests set off much larger ones and a betrayal dramatically affects everyone's lives in ways, that at first glance, are not for the better at all... (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Dedication: For Zoe, Finlay, Asha, Llewyn, Leah and Gabrielle.
  • Epigraph: Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things.. I am tempted to think there are no little things. Bruce Barton.

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Life Sentences Jane Scott , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: Brisbane News , 5 - 11 November no. 710 2008; (p. 11)
[Review] Other People's Diaries Thuy On , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 27 September 2008; (p. 30)

— Review of Other People's Diaries Kathy Webb , 2008 single work novel
[Review] Other People's Diaries Susan Watt , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , August vol. 88 no. 2 2008; (p. 38)

— Review of Other People's Diaries Kathy Webb , 2008 single work novel
[Review] Other People's Diaries Susan Watt , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , August vol. 88 no. 2 2008; (p. 38)

— Review of Other People's Diaries Kathy Webb , 2008 single work novel
[Review] Other People's Diaries Thuy On , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 27 September 2008; (p. 30)

— Review of Other People's Diaries Kathy Webb , 2008 single work novel
Life Sentences Jane Scott , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: Brisbane News , 5 - 11 November no. 710 2008; (p. 11)
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