Happily Ever After_ - Benison Anne O'Reilly [130]
My other contributors are less bashful. A hearty thanks to Virginia Henry for all the good oil on living in Discovery Bay, to Kate O’Reilly for her insights into being both a female marketer and the mother of a four year-old girl, to Dr Vijay Roach for his obstetric advice and to Mary-Anne O’Connor for being my sounding board and just a genuinely nice person.
Thank you in particular to my publisher, Jane Curry, who has unfailingly supported my new career in writing, especially considering this little venture into fiction is a leap for both of us. Gratitude also to my editor, Caroline Webber, who has nursed this novice novelist through the editing process with patience and good humour. And I can’t forget to thank Seana Smith, my co-author on the Australian Autism Handbook and hopefully many future collaborations, who rang me up one day and said, ‘Hey, do you want to write a book with me?’, thereby providing the easiest launching pad to a writing career a person could have!
I’d also like to acknowledge my wonderful family.
I am blessed to have the best in-laws in the world: Kevin & Dorn and the extended Best clan.
To my aunt Helen, thank you for your support and all the wonderful conversations we have had about literature.
To mum and dad, Roslyn, and Cameron, you are my inspiration for the loving, supportive Parkes family depicted in these pages.
To my sons, Matthew, Nicholas and the inimitable ‘Joe’, thank you for putting up with me during the long gestation period of my latest baby, this novel.
And finally thanks to James, my most enthusiastic supporter and even after twenty years still my handsome prince.
First published by Jane Curry Publishing 2010
(Wentworth Concepts Pty Ltd)
PO Box 780 Edgecliff NSW 2021
Web: www.janecurrypublishing.com.au
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National Library of Australia
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Benison Anne O’Reilly
Happily Ever After?
ISBN 978-0-9808129-6-1
Fiction
Design: Cheryl Collins Design
Cover Illustration: Megan Hess
Table of Contents
Cover
Contents
Dedication
Title
Preface
Chapter 01
Chapter 02
Chapter 03
Chapter 04
Chapter 05
Chapter 06
Chapter 07
Chapter 08
Chapter 09
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Epilogue
Real Epilogue
Review
Author Biography
About The Author
Acknowledgements
Imprint