Favourite Daughter
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  • Published: 1 June 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241740248
  • Imprint: Viking Fiction
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $49.99

Favourite Daughter

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6 May 2025
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1 May 2025
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1 May 2025
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1 Jun 2025
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Two estranged sisters are unknowingly thrown together by their father's dying wish in this darkly comic and heartfelt debut.

'He left you some money.'

Mickey felt her mouth drop open. The first half of that sentence had rung clear and true. The second half had not. Her father was one to take, not give.

After he left them for his new family, Mickey resolved never to think of her father again. She's fine without him; yes, she drinks, but only sometimes and, really, she can't not.

But with only $181 to her name, she's not above attending some mandated therapy to access her inheritance. She'll kneel at the Kleenex alter and soon be bingeing Bridgerton with a bottle of Russian Standard, five million dollars richer.

Arlo has more issues than most of her clients. Being a therapist has not prepared her for grief. She adored her father - his laughter, his charm, the smell of his cologne. She thought he adored her, too, but now he's given his inheritance to a daughter no one knows, and Arlo is at a loss.

Two sisters are unknowingly thrown together for the first time. It's crazy. It's unethical. It's perfect.
  • Published: 1 June 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241740248
  • Imprint: Viking Fiction
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 352
  • RRP: $49.99
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Praise for Favourite Daughter

So stunningly fresh and darkly funny that every page surprised me. Dick writes brilliantly about grief and addition and inheritance and, yes, redemption.

Catherine Newman

Brilliant . . . Darkly funny, gently devastating and deftly written. This will be massive.

Lauren Bravo

A gripping, deeply honest and tender story . . Witty and packed with insight

Natalie Sue

A gripping, deeply honest and tender story . . Witty and packed with insight.

Natalie Sue, I HOPE THIS FINDS YOU WELL

So stunningly fresh and darkly funny that every page surprised me. Dick writes brilliantly about grief, addiction, inheritance and, yes, redemption.

Catherine Newman, SANDWICH