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1 3 y separately published work icon It Takes a Village Christine Stinson , Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2011 Z1776009 2011 single work novel historical fiction 'Growing up in conservative, postwar Australia isn't easy. For eight-year-old Sophie, who has just been told that she's a bastard, it seems that she lives in a world of secrets, unanswered questions and whispers.

'Who is her father and why did her mother never tell anyone who he was?

'With only her reclusive grandfather to raise her, and more than one neighbour expecting her to go off the rails like her mother - after all, apples rarely fall far from the tree - Sophie struggles to find her place in the world.

'In a time when experiences are shared around the kitchen table, over the back fence or up at the corner shop, Sophie learns that life is rarely simple, love is always complicated and sometimes it takes more than blood ties to make a family.' (From the publisher's website.)
1 y separately published work icon Getting Even with Fran Christine Stinson , Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2010 Z1776015 2010 single work novel 'Cecilia was certain that nothing could ever induce her to attend her high school reunion. Thirty years after leaving St Agnes Ladies College, she's a successful lawyer with no interest in ever seeing her nemesis, Fran, again.

'But when Cecilia's husband shatters her happy world, nothing is certain for Cecilia anymore. With the false bravado accompanying the shock of her relationship breakdown, Cecilia now views the reunion as the perfect opportunity to settle old scores with the schoolgirl bully who had tormented and humiliated her.

'But Cecilia is not the only one confronting demons old and new. Nellie is ill, but that's not the worst of it. Kerry is determined to lose weight once and for all, while Sharon is happily sleeping with a younger man and unhappily placing her mother in a nursing home. Barbara is newly divorced and facing the dating arena after a twenty-year hiatus, and Anne is dealing with the mother-in-law from hell and a tribe of children under her feet... And then there's Fran.

'The women must decide if they will get along, or get even.

'For anyone who's ever had a friend - or an enemy - Getting Even with Fran is a warm, engaging tale of letting go of the past and finding friendship when least expected.' (From the publisher's website.)
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