Better Reading Preview: Just An Ordinary Family by Fiona Lowe

Better Reading Preview: Just An Ordinary Family by Fiona Lowe

Our next Preview title is Just An Ordinary Family by Fiona Lowe! To register your interest in being a Preview reviewer for this title, just fill out the form below. Please only enter once, and please note we have 50 copies of this book to give away:

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                  Publisher details

                  Just An Ordinary Family
                  Author
                  Fiona Lowe
                  Publisher
                  HQ Fiction
                  Genre
                  Fiction
                  Released
                  03 February, 2021
                  ISBN
                  9781867207986

                  Synopsis

                  Every family has its secrets... Alice Hunter is smarting from the raw deal life has thrown her way: suddenly single, jobless and forced to move home to her parents' tiny seaside town. And now she faces an uncomfortable truth. She wants her twin sister Libby's enviable life. Libby's closest friend Jess Dekic has been around the Hunter family for so long she might as well be blood. She's always considered herself a sister closer to Libby than Alice ever could be... Libby Hunter has all of life's boxes ticked: prominent small-town doctor, gorgeous husband and two young daughters. But when she is betrayed by those she loves most, it reveals how tenuous her world is... For Karen Hunter, her children are a double-edged sword of pain and pride. She's always tried to guide her girls through life's pitfalls, but how do you protect your children when they're adults? As the family implodes, the fallout for these four women will be inescapable... Bestselling Australian author Fiona Lowe wields a deft hand, creating utterly addictive storytelling that will have you questioning your own perceptions of what family is.
                  Fiona Lowe
                  About the author

                  Fiona Lowe

                  Fiona Lowe has been a midwife, a sexual health counsellor and a family support worker; an ideal career for an author who writes novels about family and relationships. She spent her early years in Papua New Guinea where, without television, reading was the entertainment and it set up a lifelong love of books. Although she often re-wrote the endings of books in her head, it was the birth of her first child that prompted her to write her first novel. A recipient of the prestigious USA RITA® award and the Australian RuBY award, Fiona writes books that are set in small country towns. They feature real people facing difficult choices and explore how family ties and relationships impact on their decisions.When she's not writing stories, she's a distracted wife, mother of two ‘ginger' sons, a volunteer in her community, guardian of eighty rose bushes, a slave to a cat, and is often found collapsed on the couch with wine. You can find her at her website, fionalowe.com, and on FacebookTwitter and Goodreads.

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                  1. Kristy Mccoy says:

                    I would like the bk could not get the form to come up

                  2. Chris Fairbairn says:

                    Sounds great, I’d love to preview it!

                  3. Michelle says:

                    Would love to read and review this book.

                  4. Leanne Brooks says:

                    I would love to read and review!

                  5. Karen Schmaltz says:

                    Love Fiona Lowe!

                  6. Amber Kirwin says:

                    No form is available?

                  7. Diana Lagrange says:

                    I’d love to preview this book, please. Thank you.

                    Diana Lagrange (Perth, WA)

                  8. I would love to review Just an Ordinary Family. Thank you for the opportunity.

                  9. Nicky Davison says:

                    Would love to read and review a book.

                  10. Jody Andrews says:

                    Would love to review Just An Ordinary Family by Fiona Lowe

                  11. Marlene P says:

                    Would love to read and review this title

                  12. Robyn Perlstein says:

                    Would love to review the book

                  13. Karen Vardon says:

                    Hi
                    I would love the opportunity to read and review.
                    Karen

                  14. Michelle Guivarra says:

                    It sounds wonderful, I would love to read and review the book 😁

                  15. Sally says:

                    I love Fiona’s books and would love the opportunity to preview her new book. Thanks. Xxx

                  16. Kerry says:

                    I would love to read this book

                  17. Denise Wilton says:

                    I would be just delighted to preview and review this novel…as I am from “just an ordinary family” myself…written with tongue in cheek.

                  18. Lisa Eadie says:

                    I would love the opportunity to preview the book

                  19. Crissouli says:

                    I’d also love to read and review… no form though…

                  20. Karen Davies says:

                    I would love to read the next book by Fiona Lowe.

                  21. Julie Hobson says:

                    Count me in for a preview of this book. There is something quite exciting about having the privilege of reading a book before the general public, like a secret mission!

                  22. Anne Walsh says:

                    Like the sound of this book, would enjoy previewing Just an ordinary day.

                  23. Kirsty says:

                    I would also love to preview this book. I enjoyed Home Fires.

                  24. Gillian Barry says:

                    I would love to read this book and review, never read this author’s books before…