From the BLURB: When Lauren and Ryan’s marriage reaches the breaking point, they come up with an unconventional plan. They decide to take a year off in the hopes of finding a way to fall in love again. One year apart, and only one rule: they cannot contact each other. Aside from that, anything goes. Lauren embarks on a journey of self-discovery, quickly finding that her friends and family have their own ideas about the meaning of marriage. These influences, as well as her own healing process and the challenges of living apart from Ryan, begin to change Lauren’s ideas about monogamy and marriage. She starts to question: When you can have romance without loyalty and commitment without marriage, when love and lust are no longer tied together, what do you value? What are you willing to fight for? This is a love story about what happens when the love fades. It’s about staying in love, seizing love, forsaking love, and committing to love with everything you’ve got. And above all, After I Do ...
Hello Darling Readers, It’s that most wondrous time of the year again – Most Anticipated Books list time! Here in Melbourne we just had the Centre for Youth Literature’s annual (and always sold-out) ‘YA Showcase’ – where publishers stand up in front of a crowd of hundreds and give us all a teaser of what we’ll be reading next year … you can check out the Storify of that event, or watch the Slideshow . So below is my attempt to corral my already unwieldy wish-list of books coming out in 2017. But this list is nowhere near definitive or complete – there were some books at the YA Showcase that I am extraordinarily excited for, but they don’t appear down below because they don’t have book covers yet, or release dates or even 100% official blurbs… Some of those elusive TBD books are; - Untidy Towns – the YA debut from “talent-to-watch” Kate O’Donnell (coming out with UQP) I've known for a while now that Kate was a writer, as well a...
