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Isabel Bookbinder is a wannabe author and works for her local paper measuring the column inches on the weeks stories. Isabel decides she is going to be abest-selling author, but is annoyed when her best friend gets an agent before she does.

So Isabel decides to work with one of the countries best selling authors as a PA to get her foot on the ladder but things don’t quite go to plan, and Isabel realises she hasn’t actually written a word of this “best-selling” novel she is convinced she can write…

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Isabel Bookbinder might not be leading the most glamorous life ever – measuring column inches at the Saturday Mercury isn’t exactly the job of her dreams – but luckily she’s developed a foolproof plan to change all that.

Reasons to become a bestselling author:

Plentiful opportunities to swish new Super-hair
Sophisticated launch parties (with smoked salmon blinis)
Am bound to captivate the delicious Joe Madison
Can finally prove to father that Really Am Not a Waster

Potential setbacks:

Don’t yet have ‘Yoko’ bag, as carried by arch rival Gina D… or honed size-eight figure (useful for interviews)
Hmm. Am inadvertently at the centre of a major political sex scandal
Paparazzi are doorstepping my parents and boring boyfriend Russell
Haven’t actually got round to putting pen to paper yet

Admittedly some of the setbacks are a little daunting, but Isabel’s sure that a woman of her ingenuity – and creativity – can find a way …

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Barabara knows she’s dying. In response to this she writes letters to her daughters, Hannah, Amanda, Lisa and Jennifer telling them her thoughts on dying as well as revealing some long-kept family secrets.

Lisa is terrified of commitment, Jennifer is unhappily married, Amanda just cannot settle down and Hannah is a teenager forced to grow up quickly because her mother dies. Each letter to the girls helps them move on and also gives them answers to some long-kept questions.

Can Barbara’s husband Mark also move on from his wife’s death?

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Barbara has been diagnosed with cancer, and realises she isn’t going to be around for her family much longer. So she decides to write her four daughters a series of letters, each personal and individual for them, so that they have a little bit of their mother left after she has gone.

Her daughters are devastated at their loss, but will they manage to draw any comfort from their mothers letters?? Will they be able to come together as a family to miss their mother properly, and will the letters set them free from the lives they are living in?

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When Tess Jarvis and Jim Ashworth drunkenly sleep together neither of them expects that it will result in a baby.

But that’s exactly what happens, and Tess is in complete shock over her unexpected pregnancy. Both Tess and Jim want to stay friends with no romantic involvement but don’t like the confused looks people give them when they try to explain their situation.

Tess, with the help of her friends, has to try to come to terms with single parenthood, and has to do a little growing up of her own.

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