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The Good Woman’s Guide to Making Better Choices follows Libby Popovic, a country girl who’s now living a golden life in Bondi with her confident financier husband Ludo and their two children. When Ludo is jailed for financial fraud – but his business partner, Maya, gets away scot-free – and Libby’s friends and family lose tens of thousands of dollars as a result, she feels agonizingly complicit for hosting the final investor pitch in their home.

Matters go from atrocious to worse when her possessions and home are repossessed, Libby is sacked and a priceless family heirloom is wrecked. While camping out at the rural goat farm where she was raised, Libby is forced to re-evaluate her life choices. How will she crawl out of financial ruin? Was Maya more than a business partner to her husband? And, most importantly, how will she save her family from falling apart?

About the author:

Liz Foster is a British-Australian fiction writer whose work explores everyday life through a whimsical lens. After a career in business and professional writing, she turned to fiction during a long period of convalescence and never looked back. For over six years, she has written the popular monthly column Life’s Rich Pattern for the Village Observer, Lane Cove’s long-running local newspaper, tackling the small but significant dilemmas of modern life — like what to do when you forget your shopping bags.

About the moderator:

Suzanne Leal is the author of novels The Watchful Wife, The Teacher’s Secret and The Deceptions, winner of the Nib People’s Choice Prize. Her debut novel for middle-grade readers, Running with Ivan, is on the Children’s Book Council of Australia Notables List for Younger Readers and was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s History Awards and the ARA Historical Novel Prize. An experienced facilitator and interviewer, Suzanne is the founder of Thursday Book Club, a relaxed book club connecting readers online. The Year We Escaped is her new novel for middle-grade readers. suzanneleal.com

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