Brooke Crawford

Notting Hill meets Bridget Jones's Baby in this whip-smart, funny, emotionally charged contemporary fiction about messy pasts, second chances, and future families from a sparkling new voice. Melbourne teacher Netta Phillips is staring down the barrel of her fortieth birthday with months' worth of negative pregnancy tests, her relationship in the bin, and a mortgage she can't afford. Things aren't...

For readers of Holly Wainwright and Nina Kenwood, a life-affirming, uplifting and emotionally layered story of love, family, community, and what home really means. In one earthquake of a day, forty-six-year-old single mother Libby becomes a reluctant empty-nester, her landlord puts her beloved Melbourne home on the market, and she finally tells her nightmare boss exactly where to stick her...