Emily Paull

Love and Other Battles Tess Woods HarperCollins Australia, 2019 (My copy courtesy the publisher) Three generations of women. Three heartbreaking choices. One unforgettable story. 1969: Free-spirited hippie Jess James has no intention of falling for a soldier ... but perhaps some things are not in our power to stop. 1989: Jess's daughter, Jamie, dreams of a simple life - marriage, children, stability - then she meets a struggling musician and suddenly the future becomes wilder and complex. 2017: When Jamie's daughter, CJ, brings home trouble in the form of the coolest boy at school, the worlds of these three women turn upside down ... and the past returns to haunt them. Spanning the trauma of the Vietnam War to the bright lights of Nashville, the epidemic of teenage self-harm to the tragedy of incurable illness,  Love and Other Battles  is the heart-wrenching story of three generations of Australian women, who learn that true love is not always where you seek it. ...

It's here. It's alive! My cover has been revealed to the world and I am so excited that for once I am lost for words! The cover was designed by the one and only Debra Billson and picked by myself and the wonderful team at Margaret River Press. Now that the cover is in the world, the book is available for pre-order and I know many of you wonderful humans have already ordered yours so a big THANK YOU to everyone who is supporting my book on its journey into the world. The book will be out in all good bookstores (I hope) in December 2019, but if you'd like to make sure you get your hands on one, do pop over to the website and order a copy, or speak to your friendly local bookseller. Pre-orders help publishers know how many copies to print! ORDER HERE.