My Novels
A goat farm, fraud, payback, marriage, following your dreams and starting over…
The Good Woman’s Guide to Making Better Choices follows Libby Popovic, a country girl who’s now living a golden life in Bondi with her confident financier husband Ludo and their two children. When Ludo is jailed for financial fraud – but his business partner, Maya, gets away scot-free – and Libby’s friends and family lose tens of thousands of dollars as a result, she feels agonizingly complicit for hosting the final investor pitch in their home.
Matters go from atrocious to worse when her possessions and home are repossessed, Libby is sacked and a priceless family heirloom is wrecked. While camping out at the rural goat farm where she was raised, Libby is forced to re-evaluate her life choices. How will she crawl out of financial ruin? Was Maya more than a business partner to her husband? And, most importantly, how will she save her family from falling apart?
The story behind the Good Woman’s Guide
Like thousands of Australians, I became fascinated with the spiralling tale of woe of financial fraudster Melissa Caddick and the vipers nest of lies she created for family and friends. It made me think how easy it all was. How she got away with it for years, and probably still could have if she’d skipped town before the police caught up with her.
I have friends who live in North East Victoria, which has a couple of ‘white-collar’ prisons and I wanted to partly set the novel there. So this tale spans the glitzy highs of Bondi to a rural goat farm in a country town. It centres around choices - those we make, and those we find it easier not to make. There’s mostly lightness and hopefully some laugh out loud moments, because fiction should be page-turny-enjoyable, in my humble opinion.
Oh and it features a sleuthing parrot, a drone and Lady Gaga.