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'A highly adorable and addictive love story that explores whether "the stars" can or should be a guide through life and what happens when one woman tries to give "the stars" a little help.
'When childhood sweethearts Justine (Sagittarius and serious skeptic) and Nick (Aquarius and true believer) randomly bump into each other as adults, a life-changing love affair seems inevitable. To Justine anyway. True, she hasn't seen Nick in thirteen years, one month and three weeks, but who's counting? She's pined after him all the same, and now that Nick lives in the same town, a struggling actor to her struggling magazine reporter, he'll surely realize his own unchanged feelings, take the reins and jump at the chance to rekindle their relationship. Right? Well, no. Nick, she learns, is an astrological devotee, and his decision-making, romantic and professional, is guided solely by the infallible horoscopes in his favourite magazine. The magazine Justine happens to work at. Perhaps the stars' guiding forces could use a little journalistic reimagining?
'It's only a few tweaks to the Aquarius column, just a little push to get him to realize they're meant for one another. It's nonsense in the first place, what could possibly happen? Aquarians everywhere are about to find out, when the doctored horoscopes, ostensibly published to steer Nick and Nick alone, end up reverberating in the lives of the column's devoted readers, showing the ripple effects of what can happen when one woman decides to take the horoscopes, and Fate itself, into her own hands.
'Spanning exactly one year, as the earth moves through all twelve stars signs, Star-Crossed is a delicious, intelligent and affecting love story about fate, chance and how we all navigate the kinds of choices that are hard to face alone.' (Publication summary)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Sound recording.
- Dyslexic edition.
- Large print.
Works about this Work
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In Love and Toying with Astrology
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 2 March 2019; (p. 21)
— Review of Star-Crossed : A Novel 2019 single work novel'If you don’t read your stars, maybe you should. There are all kinds of forces at work in the universe. Astral configurations are ‘‘mapped on to’’ your soul at birth, or so we are told in Minnie Darke’s novel Star Crossed.' (Introduction)
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Becoming Minnie Darke
2019
single work
essay
— Appears in: Island , no. 156 2019; (p. 26)'Danielle Wood on pseudonyms and the divide between literary and commercial writing.'
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Written in the Stars
Kat Mayo
(interviewer),
2018
single work
interview
— Appears in: Books + Publishing , October vol. 97 no. 4 2018; (p. 32)'Minnie Darke's Star-Crossed follows an aspiring journalist who begins to tinker with her paper's astrology section after learning that her crush consults his horoscope whenever he's faced with making big life decisions. Reviewer Kat Mayo praises Star-Crossed as 'a charming rom-com [and] a solid summer read'. She spoke to the author.'
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In Love and Toying with Astrology
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 2 March 2019; (p. 21)
— Review of Star-Crossed : A Novel 2019 single work novel'If you don’t read your stars, maybe you should. There are all kinds of forces at work in the universe. Astral configurations are ‘‘mapped on to’’ your soul at birth, or so we are told in Minnie Darke’s novel Star Crossed.' (Introduction)
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Written in the Stars
Kat Mayo
(interviewer),
2018
single work
interview
— Appears in: Books + Publishing , October vol. 97 no. 4 2018; (p. 32)'Minnie Darke's Star-Crossed follows an aspiring journalist who begins to tinker with her paper's astrology section after learning that her crush consults his horoscope whenever he's faced with making big life decisions. Reviewer Kat Mayo praises Star-Crossed as 'a charming rom-com [and] a solid summer read'. She spoke to the author.'
-
Becoming Minnie Darke
2019
single work
essay
— Appears in: Island , no. 156 2019; (p. 26)'Danielle Wood on pseudonyms and the divide between literary and commercial writing.'
Awards
- 2019 people's choice Tasmania Book Prizes — Margaret Scott Prize