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The Secret Life of Shirley Sullivan

Author: Lisa Ireland, Harriet Gordon-Anderson and Deborah Kennedy  

The Secret Life of Shirley Sullivan is a charming, nostalgic and heart-warming story for women of any age - and it all begins when 79-year-old Shirley kidnaps her husband from his nursing home for one final adventure ...

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The Secret Life of Shirley Sullivan is a charming, nostalgic and heart-warming story for women of any age - and it all begins when 79-year-old Shirley kidnaps her husband from his nursing home for one final adventure ...

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The Secret Life of Shirley Sullivan is a charming, nostalgic and heart-warming story for women of any age – and it all begins when 79-year-old Shirley kidnaps her husband from for one final adventure …Elderly. Is that how the world sees me? A helpless little old lady? If only they knew. I allow myself a small smirk.When Shirley Sullivan signs her 83-year-old husband, Frank, out of the Sunset Lodge Nursing Home, she has no intention of bringing him back.For 57 years the couple has shared love, happiness and heartbreak. And while Frank may not know who his wife is these days, he knows he wants to go home. Back to the beach where they met in the early 1960s …So Shirley enacts an elaborate plan to evade the authorities – and their furious daughter, Fiona – to give Frank the holiday he’d always dreamed of.And, in doing so, perhaps Shirley can make amends for a lifelong guilty secret …

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Critic Reviews

'Lisa Ireland’s writing is simply magical, and Shirley’s charming and heartfelt story brought me to tears again and again. The Secret Life of Shirley Sullivan is one of my favourite books, ever.' -- Kelly Rimmer, New York Times bestselling author of The Things We Cannot Say

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About the Author

Lisa Ireland is an Australian bestselling author, who lives on Victoria’s Bellarine Peninsula with her husband and three (big) boys. She loves eating but not cooking, is an Olympic class procrastinator and (most importantly) minion to a rather large dog.Lisa’s fifth novel, The Art of Friendship, will be published by Pan Macmillan in May 2018. Harriet Gordon-Anderson is a 2015 WAAPA Graduate and was cast in the Malthouse/Black Swan Theatre Company tour of Picnic at Hanging Rock which she received a nomination for 2017 Performance WA award for Best Newcomer. Her additional stage work includes Hamlet and The Miser with the Bell Shakespeare Company, You Got Older and Leaves with Kings Cross Theatre, and Darlinghurst Theatre Co's production of Kindertransport. Harriet also appeared as Maree on the award-winning FX series Mr Inbetween. Deborah Kennedy is a highly experienced actress and a familiar face on Australian television screens. She portrayed Doris Collins on A Place to Call Home (2013 –2018) and Mishka Schneiderova on Neighbours (2006).

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Publisher
Bolinda Publishing | Bolinda Audio Books
Published
28th April 2020
ISBN
9780655664512

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