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Melanie La'Brooy Melanie La'Brooy i(A76010 works by)
Born: Established: 1973 ;
Gender: Female
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1 4 y separately published work icon Bittersweet Melanie La'Brooy , Camberwell : Penguin , 2010 Z1721000 2010 single work novel

'Sabrina Falks is the golden girl; a beautiful, successful actress who is engaged to the too-good-to-be-true Edward. Her life is glamorous and seemingly perfect - apart from her recurring desire to run away. Her younger sister Mimi is funny and bright but also hopelessly lost, with no career prospects, no money, no love life and a string of disastrous mistakes in her past, all of which seem to be curiously linked.

'Returning from overseas, Mimi is forced into a reluctant reconciliation with her estranged sister when Sabrina hires Mimi to be her bridesmaid. The sisters then join forces to do battle with intrusive paparazzi, out-of-control dress designers and, occasionally, with each other ...

'Bittersweet is a meditation on marriage, celebrity culture and the bittersweet bonds of family, revealing that sometimes life has a way of escaping from even the best-laid plans ...' (Publisher's blurb)
1 2 y separately published work icon The Babymoon Melanie La'Brooy , Camberwell : Michael Joseph , 2008 Z1531372 2008 single work novel

'Now living in Melbourne, Isabelle and Dr Jack are expecting their first child. And, naturally, Isabelle is the very model of a calm Earth Mother-to-be. . .

'Or she would be if she wasn't consumed with anxiety about finding her pelvic floor, giving birth to a human-eel hybrid or the horrifying prospect of having a child named Leroy Marvin. Even worse, as Isabelle's tummy grows, so too does the distance between her and her adored Dr Jack who, it seems, has quite different priorities. . .

'But with support from a host of new mothers including her friend Fran and her sister Audrey, as well as her fellow gallerina Doug, just maybe Isabelle can make it through pregnancy and childbirth with her dignity, her relationship and some more private bits intact.

'Then again, maybe not.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 Melanie La'Brooy : The Books That Changed Me Melanie La'Brooy , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 14 September 2008; (p. 10-11) Melanie La'Brooy nominates five books that changed her.
1 4 y separately published work icon Serendipity Melanie La'Brooy , Camberwell : Viking , 2007 Z1353044 2007 single work novel romance humour 'Hero Hathaway likes her life ordered, neat. Perfect. So how does she end up in a Manhattan bar, downing cocktails and masquerading as fearless trapeze artist Lola? Not to mention flirting with the charmingly unpredictable bartender, Oscar Martin. Sparks fly, but when Hero panics and runs away, it's the end of the affair - until she bumps into Oscar in Sydney, two years later. Oscar is determined to win Hero back. She is equally determined not to be won: she knows, beyond doubt, that they're hopelessly mismatched. Fate, however, has other ideas ...' - Cover.
1 y separately published work icon Romantic Fiction Melanie La'Brooy , New York (State) : Berkley Publishing Corporation , 2005 Z1391331 2005 single work novel romance
1 Who's Afraid of Bridget Jones? Melanie La'Brooy , 2005 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 12-13 November 2005; (p. 10-11)
1 On My Bedside Table : Melanie La'Brooy Melanie La'Brooy , 2005 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 12 March 2005; (p. 6)
1 2 y separately published work icon The Wish List Melanie La'Brooy , Camberwell : Penguin , 2005 Z1178611 2005 single work novel romance

'Who says a modern girl can’t believe in fairytales?

'Scatty, funny and smart, Lucy is a hopeless romantic. With an unshakeable faith in happy endings, she drives her friends Meg and Chloe crazy as she tries time and again to make her best friend Tom fall in love with her.

'Then Lucy meets the man of her dreams – or so it seems – and must finally decide whether true love is fact, fiction, or something in between.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
3 3 y separately published work icon Love Struck Melanie La'Brooy , Camberwell : Penguin , 2003 Z1045753 2003 single work novel humour Isabelle's boyfriend has left her. Attempting to mend her broken heart, she buries herself in her work at an auction house, develops a crush on the boy next door, gets smashed at several exhibitions and finds herself in various other madcap situations. In the style of Marian Keyes and Maggie Alderson, from a new Australian writer. (Source: Trove)
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