What do you do if you’re a successful author and you get dudded by the men in your life? Turn them into characters in your book and kill them off. At least that’s the approach Edith Scott takes.
After five successful books, Edith decides to switch genres and write an action thriller. She has financial stability and, as she approaches her 40s, her life is freer than before. She loves exploring the world of online dating and having sex with handsome men. There’s Dan in Sydney, Julien in Paris, Hugo from London, and other minor dalliances.
But the men she cares about are not always kind in return. When she is unexpectedly ghosted, she decides to take her revenge by writing them into her novel and killing them off. If only she knew that real life is also dealing with them in ways Edith never expected …
This entertaining and thought-provoking novel is set in Sydney, Paris, London, Berlin and Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It’s a humorous look at online dating, modern relationships and the funny coincidences that life serves up, with a good dose of karma thrown in.
The Manuscript is a fun, fast-paced read.
Reviewed by Melinda Woledge
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lucy Bloom led a successful boutique advertising agency for 20 years before taking on the start-up challenge as founding CEO of a brand new women’s health charity. In less than three years at the helm, Lucy built the policy, procedure, team and strategy which raised $7M for a network of hospitals and a midwifery school in Ethiopia.
Lucy then moved on to lead a Cambodian children’s charity as the organisation’s first CEO. She transformed it from an administration function to a fundraising machine with proper policy, procedure, budgeting and strategy, raising more in 12 months than the charity had raised in any year before.
Lucy has an impressive track record in communicating tricky subjects for mass appeal, strategic financial management, governance and policy. She is also an expert in building and developing high-performance teams.
Lucy Bloom is as well known for her mohawk as she is for her books, business leadership and memorable speeches. She is experienced in building and leading fast-paced intergenerational and remote micro-teams. She has launched a number of businesses including an education startup. Why does she have pink hair? Because she can.
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