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Christine Betts

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Contemporary, Nonfiction, Chick Lit

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Kate Atkinson, Philippa Pearce, Philippa Gregory, Diana Gabaldon, Kate ...more

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Christine Betts is a novelist, author of award-winning short stories, and teaches creative writing workshops. In February 2025, her manuscript Homecoming (working title) was long listed in the Hawkeye Publishing Manuscript Development Prize, and Christine is a committee member for the inaugural Currumbin Crime Writers Festival, held August 15-16, 2025. Planning for the 2026 festival is underway.

Christine has been a member of the Gold Coast Writers’ Association since 2018 and served on the committee as newsletter editor (2021-23) and speaker coordinator (2023-24). Christine is the creator of the popular Write and Sip fundraising events and patron/judge of the GCWA Short Story Competition (2022-23) and creator of the GCWA members Critique Gro ...more

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	Hotel Déjà Vu: Would you do it all again? 4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2018 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alia Henry and the Ghost Writer 4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Splashes of Love: Anthology of Aussie Romance Stories by Charmaine Clancy (Goodreads Author), Anna Campbell (Goodreads Author), Jan-Andrew Henderson (Goodreads Author) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Set in Paris: Paris in a Day and Other Stories really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mae, June and Paul it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Julie (Paris in a Day, #1) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Hamnet

by Maggie O'Farrell (Goodreads Author)

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Sweetheart: A Jen Sweet novel (The Sweet series Book 1)

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What Did I Miss?

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“Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow.”
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“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

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“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
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― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

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“Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.”
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