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Maxine Fawcett in conversation for Better Read Than Dead
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Maxine Fawcett in conversation for Better Read Than Dead


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3:00pm - 4:30pm, 11th May 2024


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265 King Street, Newtown, NSW 2042


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About

Cassandra seems to have it all – but behind her perfect façade she’s barely hanging on.

 

Cassie Prince lives in a beautiful beach suburb with her successful husband Jon and their children Ellie and Danny. Life is perfect, right? Except now she’s reached her mid-forties, she can’t help wondering what happened to the fun-loving, sexy and accomplished woman she used to be. This isn’t what was promised. She’s panicking about ageing, bored in her marriage, exhausted by her demanding kids, and increasingly torn by news of her sick mother back in England. So Cassie does what she’s always done – buries her feelings and ignores her problems (and does some more online shopping). Then at school drop-off she meets Chris Lancaster, a charismatic widowed father-of-five. Soon she can’t stop imagining romantic scenarios between them, even daydreaming of a future together.

 

She may have been spiralling these last few months, but now Cassie is convinced that the unsuspecting and still vulnerable widower is the answer to everything . . .

 

Maxine Fawcett lives in Sydney, where she runs her own media and marketing agency with her husband. Everything is Perfect is her debut novel.

 

Jane Tara has published over a hundred children's books, several plays and five novels. She's a daily meditator, a sucker for a rescue mutt and, most of all, a front-row cheerleader for her two sons. She spent thirteen years wandering the world and lived in five countries but is now happily at home in Sydney. Jane is the general manager at Australia's largest book review community, Better Reading.

Book

Everything is Perfect

Cassandra seems to have it all – but behind her perfect façade she’s barely hanging on.

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