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Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 Bittersweet
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'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)

Notes

  • Dedication: For Charlie, Dashiell & Raleigh / My trio of light, laughter and love.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Camberwell, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2010 .
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      Extent: 449p.
      Note/s:
      • Published August 1st 2010
      ISBN: 9780143205685 (pbk.)

Works about this Work

Untitled Rachel Wilson , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , September vol. 90 no. 2 2010; (p. 31)

— Review of Bittersweet Melanie La'Brooy , 2010 single work novel
Take Three Louise Crossman , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 17 October 2010; (p. 26)

— Review of Bittersweet Melanie La'Brooy , 2010 single work novel
Cover Notes Lucy Sussex , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 12 September 2010; (p. 21)

— Review of Night Street Kristel Thornell , 2009 single work novel ; Bittersweet Melanie La'Brooy , 2010 single work novel
Untitled 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 28 - 29 August 2010; (p. 24)

— Review of Bittersweet Melanie La'Brooy , 2010 single work novel
Untitled 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 28 - 29 August 2010; (p. 24)

— Review of Bittersweet Melanie La'Brooy , 2010 single work novel
Cover Notes Lucy Sussex , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 12 September 2010; (p. 21)

— Review of Night Street Kristel Thornell , 2009 single work novel ; Bittersweet Melanie La'Brooy , 2010 single work novel
Take Three Louise Crossman , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 17 October 2010; (p. 26)

— Review of Bittersweet Melanie La'Brooy , 2010 single work novel
Untitled Rachel Wilson , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , September vol. 90 no. 2 2010; (p. 31)

— Review of Bittersweet Melanie La'Brooy , 2010 single work novel
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