Goodreads Giveaway 📘 📖 📘

Hi everyone!

This is a quick email to update you all on 'The Sisters' Song' and let you know about the giveaway that's currently happening on Goodreads.

Before I do that, though, I want to share this with you. It's a snippet of feedback from the proofreader of my book. I can't share it all because of spoilers, but here's what she said in part:

‘I finished proofreading TSS last night. It was so wonderful! I sobbed when xxx and xxx – heartbreaking. And Ida is such a fabulous character. I loved it!

I was thrilled with this response from the first 'cold' reader of my book!

If you've been following along on Facebook and Twitter, you'll know that I've read and returned the proofs of my book to Allen and Unwin. Meanwhile, the team there have been busy preparing for publication day, and my book's now listed on their website, as well as Amazon, where the kindle edition is available for preorder.

A&U have also sent out early copies to reviewers—a few of which have already been sighted in readers' hands.

Lastly, my book's up on Goodreads, which brings me to the main point of this email:

Goodreads Giveaway

Until the end of the month, there's a giveaway happening over at Goodreads, with 20 copies of my book up for grabs. If you'd like to be in the running to win one, slip over there to enter.

To further entice you, here's the back cover blurb:

Set in rural Tasmania from the 1920s to the 1990s, The Sisters' Song traces the lives of two very different sisters. One for whom giving and loving are her most natural qualities and the other who cannot forgive and forget.

As children, Ida loves looking after her younger sister, Nora, but when their beloved father dies in 1927, everything changes. The two girls move in with their grandmother who is particularly encouraging of Nora's musical talent. In Nora, she sees herself, the artist she was never allowed to be. As Nora follows her dream of a brilliant musical career, Ida takes a job as a nanny and their lives become quite separate.

The two sisters are reunited as Nora's life takes an unwelcome direction and she finds herself isolated in the Tasmanian bush saddled with a husband and children. Embittered and resentful about her lost chances, Nora welcomes Ida's help with her chaotic household. When Ida marries Len, a reliable and good man, she hopes her dreams of a family of her own will be fulfilled. Unfortunately it becomes clear that this is never likely to happen. In Ida's eyes, Nora possesses everything in life that could possibly matter yet she values none of it.

Set in rural Tasmania over a span of seventy years, the strengths and flaws of motherhood are revealed through the mercurial relationship of these two very different sisters, Ida and Nora. The Sisters' Song speaks of dreams, children and family, all entwined with a musical thread that binds them together.

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