Reviews

‘It’s high-end chick-lit for the over 55’s, underpinned by the intelligent and generous idea that desire comes in many guises and is nobody’s business but your own.’

SPECTRUM

'This novel is an unabashed rom-com. There will be setbacks, sexual ones and professional ones. But will it all work out in the end? Duigan does like to sprinkle a bit of fairy dust on everyone, yet at the same time she examines contentious issues, perhaps too briefly. There’s a point and a message to be made: that modern relationships can be stitched together with oddly coloured, mismatched threads and that age is no barrier to a sexually fulfilling love life.’

THUY ON, BOOKS EDITOR, THE BIG ISSUE

Author Biography

Virginia Duigan wrote the screenplay of the 1998 movie The Leading Man, starring Jon Bon Jovi, Thandie Newton and Barry Humphries. Before becoming a novelist, Duigan worked as a journalist, broadcaster, editor and TV scriptwriter. She was a freelance contributor to The Bulletin, The Age, The Australian, The Financial Review, Cinema Papers, and in London to the The Observer and The Times. She was Literary Editor of The National Times, and a theatre, book, film and restaurant reviewer. She has written three novels: The Precipice, Days Like These and The Biographer. Born in Cambridge she now lives in both Sydney and London with her husband, film director Bruce Beresford.