
Better than the Real Thing
$27.30
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
24 November 2025
Summary
Better Than the Real Thing: A Novel
Notting Hill meets Bridget Jones Baby in this whip-smart, funny, emotionally charged contemporary fiction about messy pasts, second chances, and future families from a sparkling new voice.
Melbourne teacher Netta Phillips is staring down the barrel of her fortieth birthday with months’ worth of negative pregnancy tests behind her, her relationship in the bin, and a mortgage she can’t afford. Things really aren’t going to …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781038961075 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1038961076 |
| Author: | Brooke Crawford |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd |
| Imprint: | HQ Genre |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 24 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 462g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 155mm x 30mm |
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About The Author
Brooke Crawford
Brooke Crawford is an emerging author of feel-good contemporary fiction, whose work has been recognised in writing competitions in Australia, New Zealand and the United States. Brooke won the Romance Writers of Australia’s Opal Award in 2024, has post-graduate qualifications in professional writing from Deakin University, and studied novel writing under the guidance of Australian author Josephine Moon. Having previously worked in public relations, creative account management, advertising and education, she now runs a successful copywriting business from her home in Melbourne, where she lives with her partner and their three children. Better than the Real Thing is her first novel.
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