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It’s no lie

There is a new novel - launched 28 July 2024

Maybe in DOL you’ll have a connection to the characters in the early chapters.
Perhaps Stan who has withdrawn from life because it’s too painful.
Are you someone who likes to impart knowledge?
Syd or Miss Tillman might be your connection.
I’m sure Nora, Kate’s mother, will cause a variety of reactions from

readers. Nora is struggling to find her place in her new world and has a

little bit of a chip on her shoulder. One of my first readers didn’t like her

– but Nora, because she’s been hurt, reflects an attitude which hides

her softer side. I’m sure we all know a Nora – and can relate.

Your distaste of money-spending, women-who-only-lunch might get

under your skin, but right there is your reaction, your connection, to

that part of the story.
Or maybe while reading the last chapters you’ll love Andrea – a kind character

who always sees the good in people.

But what of the main character? Will you love or hate Kate Wallace?
I expect … both. As the story unfolds, you’ll probably change your mind

several times.
Kate is definitely NOT like Gillian of Doors of Prague or Asha in Redhill Corner who I reckon have readers cheering for them from the early pages.
Hopefully you’ll appreciate Kate’s determination to achieve a ‘better’ life, despite her seeing the answer to this better life as money.
She certainly gives it her best shot – and in the end …
well, there’s a happy ending of sorts on page 289 before the story moves on.
In the final pages Kate is asked if she has any regrets.
She replies, ‘I don’t do regret. It’s a waste of time. But there is one thing …’
That one thing is revealed in Chapter 37.

I had a fabulous time at the launch of Diary of Lies - a fun crowd of over seventy, many of whom joined in the idea to dress up. I took the chance to wear a hooped dress - no particular connection to the novel!

Chapter 27 reveals a Scot, kilts and bagpipes - so I just had to have Steven Barnett entertain us - they were surprised and amazed!

above: Members of Gosnells Writers Circle celebrated with me

Barb and Graeme Gurney

Books available via publisher

www.dragonflypublishing.com.au

Asha-Lee has been blessed with “The Gift” but refuses to acknowledge it.

Growing up in a house with chanting and incense burning, and her mother, Lalita, declaring everyone needs to ‘cleanse their spirit’, Asha-lee turned from being a girl wanting to appease her mother to Asha, a young woman wanting just to be ‘normal’.

Asha rents a flat in an old house on Redhill Corner and instantly falls for its once-elegant charm, determined to make it her home. She finds an old carboard box in her flat containing paraphernalia from years gone by and feels compelled to learn more about their vague connection to the old house, something she hopes the caretaker, Mr Cantronelli, can help uncover.

When Asha meets a young woman and her baby at a nearby bus stop, she learns Jocelyn and her husband, Oscar, have recently moved to the area and are struggling to make ends meet. And despite resistance to her psychic abilities, Asha is drawn into a mysterious love story centred around the place she now calls home.

What extraordinary secrets will this house reveal to Asha, if only she’d let it?

By learning to embrace her gift, can Asha figure out what happened to the young family in the house on Redhill corner and in doing so, finally accept who she really is?

Published by Dragonfly Publishing 2022