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'Alice Day's theory has led to five strangers meeting in a bar to take part in her experiment. But can this one-time bestselling author, now a mother and housewife, follow through and change their lives for the better (and perhaps her own as well)?
'The strangers are a working mother stretched to breaking point, a childless woman whose only solace is fashion, a divorced father, a teacher who hates her job but loves a married man and a widow in her 60s hiding a painful secret.
'It is the little things that make life worth living, or so Alice's theory goes. Her aim is to see if the tasks she emails each group member can slowly turn their lives around.
'But with any experiment, there are outcomes. The small changes Alice suggests set off much larger ones and a betrayal dramatically affects everyone's lives in ways, that at first glance, are not for the better at all... (Publisher's blurb)
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Dedication: For Zoe, Finlay, Asha, Llewyn, Leah and Gabrielle.
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Epigraph: Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things.. I am tempted to think there are no little things. Bruce Barton.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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Life Sentences
2008
single work
column
— Appears in: Brisbane News , 5 - 11 November no. 710 2008; (p. 11) -
[Review] Other People's Diaries
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 27 September 2008; (p. 30)
— Review of Other People's Diaries 2008 single work novel -
[Review] Other People's Diaries
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , August vol. 88 no. 2 2008; (p. 38)
— Review of Other People's Diaries 2008 single work novel
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[Review] Other People's Diaries
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , August vol. 88 no. 2 2008; (p. 38)
— Review of Other People's Diaries 2008 single work novel -
[Review] Other People's Diaries
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 27 September 2008; (p. 30)
— Review of Other People's Diaries 2008 single work novel -
Life Sentences
2008
single work
column
— Appears in: Brisbane News , 5 - 11 November no. 710 2008; (p. 11)