Love and Punishment
By Wendy Harmer

Love and Punishment

By (author) Wendy Harmer

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'Dear Francie, My boyfriend left me for my best friend a year ago and now he wants me to come to counselling with him to help him get over the guilt. What do you think?' Of course once Francie would have thought it was a good idea. Two people sitting down like adults and resolving their conflict, moving on, being happy. But not now. She typed: Take to his car with a hammer and tell him the only place you'll go with him is to a panel beater.' Francie writes the Seriously Single column for the Sunday Press. Nick - the man she thought she'd spend the rest of her life with - has dumped her for an older woman. To say that Francie is annoyed would be a serious understatement. Struggling to deal with the bleak landscape of her new life, Francie signs up for therapy and moves into a shared household with a trio of supposedly swingin' singles. But Francie has a secret. A dirty little secret of nasty revenge. Her nightmare is that one day all will be revealed. That couldn't happen ...could it? A fast, poignant and funny novel about life, love and a shiny, sharp pair of scissors.

ISBN: 9781741751741
Classification: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Format: Paperback (194mm x 131mm x 27mm)
Pages: 360
Publish Date: 1-Jan-2008
Country of Publication: Australia

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1 star rating by Boomert - Love and Punishment by Wendy Harmer 09 Jan 2010
After tackling the children’s book market, and a slightly older demographic with Farwell My Ovaries, Wendy Harmer turns her hand to the more traditional single-career-girls-in-their-30s chicklit demographic with Love and Punishment. Set in inner-city Melbourne it has all the correct ingredients-pretty single career girl (journalist), kooky best friends (jewellery designer, children’s TV writer), cool bars and even a wacky-but-wise therapist. Francie the lead character has just emerged out of a long-term relationship (with an actor) and has had to resort to share household living (with a comic, architect and sound engineer). However in a cleverly revealed (but oh so public) twist, we discover that this agony aunt has perpetrated perhaps the sweetest of revenge fantasies and it is from here the story takes us to the heart of Harmer’s message-that unresolved issues from your past will affect your current choices. Less fashion than Maggie Alderson but nonetheless just as entertaining, Love and Punishment is a welcome addition to the growing list of chicklit with an Australian accent. This review from Australian Bookseller & Publisher magazine is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2008, Thorpe-Bowker

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