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Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 Sex, Lies and Bonsai
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'Have you ever felt the need to start again?

Dumped by text message, Edie flees Sydney for the refuge of her childhood home, taking only a wilting bonsai as a reminder of her failure. But in this small coastal town, shy, awkward Edie has always lived in the shadow of her surf champion father. How can she move on from her ex -- and from her past?

Her best friend and life-coach, Sally, is full of dubious advice, but Edie finds there are many ways to mess things up all by herself. A new-found talent for erotic writing, a job drawing crab larvae, unrequited lust for a professor with hidden depths and a maddening musician with troubles of his own add to her swag of problems. And then things get complicated ...

A tender and witty tale about finding your voice, falling in love ... and crab sex.' (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Dedication: For Tim. My webmaster and film director extraordinaire.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: HarperCollins Australia , 2013 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 375p.
      Note/s:
      • Publication date: 18/12/2012
      • E.Book
      ISBN: 0730496791, 9780730496793

Works about this Work

The Fish out of Water Lisa Walker , 2013 single work essay
— Appears in: Writing Queensland , March no. 227 2013; (p. 14)
Untitled Shelley Orchard , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 26 January 2013; (p. 30)

— Review of Sex, Lies and Bonsai Lisa Walker , 2013 single work novel
Untitled Angie Andrewes , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 2-3 February 2013; (p. 22)

— Review of Sex, Lies and Bonsai Lisa Walker , 2013 single work novel
In Short: Fiction Cameron Woodhead , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 29 December 2012; (p. 18) The Saturday Age , 29 December 2012; (p. 24) The Sydney Morning Herald , 28-29 December 2012; (p. 24)

— Review of Sex, Lies and Bonsai Lisa Walker , 2013 single work novel
In Short: Fiction Cameron Woodhead , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 29 December 2012; (p. 18) The Saturday Age , 29 December 2012; (p. 24) The Sydney Morning Herald , 28-29 December 2012; (p. 24)

— Review of Sex, Lies and Bonsai Lisa Walker , 2013 single work novel
Untitled Angie Andrewes , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 2-3 February 2013; (p. 22)

— Review of Sex, Lies and Bonsai Lisa Walker , 2013 single work novel
Untitled Shelley Orchard , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 26 January 2013; (p. 30)

— Review of Sex, Lies and Bonsai Lisa Walker , 2013 single work novel
The Fish out of Water Lisa Walker , 2013 single work essay
— Appears in: Writing Queensland , March no. 227 2013; (p. 14)
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