AustLit

'One Paris shop, four women, four decades of intrigue…

'Spring, 1909
When Delphine Altrain purchases a date with Paris’ most eligible bachelor, Gabriel LaPouge, she has one thing on her mind…hats. When her latest design becomes the talk of the Grand Prix, it seems everything she has dreamed of is within her reach, but when the past arrives to destroy her present, Delphine needs to decide if she stays and risks heartbreak, or run and always wonder what could have been.

'Summer, 1924
Beautiful Edith Carrow appears to have it all. As Coco Chanel’s mannequin her life is full of parties and the adoration of a rich man. But Edith holds a deep secret from her past. When she meets toymaker, Henri, her heart threatens to unravel all she has worked hard to achieve. She must choose, follow her head or listen to her heart and risk losing everything.

'Autumn, 1935
Genevieve Dupuis is forbidden from doing two things; painting and falling in love. So when she meets handsome Sebastian on a forbidden painting trip her life becomes ever so slightly complicated. Can a girl who has learned to survive by lies and illusions face up to the truth in time to realise that sometimes surrender is the bravest act of all?

'Winter, 1944
SOE agent Therese Lambert is about to risk everything to help free Canadian airman Will – a man hiding his own covert activities beneath an identity she knows isn’t his. Fleeing from the German occupiers and the collaborating French, they escape Paris. Can their budding attraction survive a perilous journey or will a betrayal put both their lives on the line?' (Production summary)

'Rosamund Winter is the darling of the Warner Brothers lot and has worked hard to get there. But now that the US is at war she wants to do more than serve food to soldiers. When she is invited to become a WASP she jumps at the chance to serve her country and use her skills as a pilot. But then Rosamund breaks the rules and falls in love, and when her plane goes missing in the darkness of war everyone asks, what happened to Rosamund Winter?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'You know those perfect, wonderful days where everything goes right, and you just wish you could hit pause and be happy forever? Well, this is not a story about one of those days. This is a day where Jane should have stayed in bed. She certainly didn’t plan on running into an ex looking the way she does and she didn’t plan on giving the old man next door a heart attack, but that’s just about how this day is turning out.

'A short story about the bad days, that make even the most mundane days seem good.' (Production summary)  

'Ever since the American civil war classic Gone With The Wind was published in 1936, and film producer David O’Selznick bought the rights, everyone was asking, who will play Scarlett O’Hara?

'Years go by and the film studio still doesn’t have its lead. Enter little known English actress, Vivien Leigh, and the rest as they say, is history… this short story is based on real events, and the fateful night Selznick met his Scarlett.'(Production summary)

'What if an app guaranteed happiness? What if that app delivered your dream man, but it wasn't exactly as you thought your Happily After would be....' (Production summary)

'Emma Reynolds knows what she wants: ace year 12, get into the Victorian College of the Arts then join a dance company and become a professional dancer like her Mum. It’s the beginning of the year and Emma has her last year of school and her future mapped out, with the opinion that nothing will get in her way. When her long time crush Daniel finally notices her, Emma thinks her life can’t get any better but already her perfectly planned year is falling apart. She starts her first job teaching dance where she meets Riley, an arrogant circus performer student who always seems to be in the right place at the right time. Emma is on track to making her dreams a reality, until an event changes her and those around her lives forever. Nothing will ever be the same and she questions everything she thought she wanted. With family pressure to be the best, torn between two boys who couldn’t be more different and a future very different from the one she had hoped for, what and who will she choose? Sometimes, the best laid plans, are not the best plans for you' (Publication blurb).