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Jessica Dettmann

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Sydney, Australia

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Jessica Dettmann is the author of two novels, a couple of short stories and many blog posts. She was born and raised in Sydney, Australia, and there she remains, disappointing her fourteen-year-old self who thought she would be living in the pensione in Florence from A Room With A View by now.

She is married and has two children and two cats. She does not enjoy walking on the beach with her dog because parking is very expensive at the beach and she does not have a dog.

Before she became a writer, she worked for a long time as a book editor. She is very lucky Instagram didn't exist back then or she would have been fired for timewasting. Now she is her own boss and she is on her last warning for timewasting on Instagram Stories.

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Average rating: 3.82 · 6,729 ratings · 769 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	How to Be Second Best 3.89 avg rating — 2,488 ratings — published 2019 — 14 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
	This Has Been Absolutely Lovely 3.82 avg rating — 2,147 ratings — published 2021 — 5 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
	Your Friend and Mine 3.74 avg rating — 1,119 ratings — published 2025 — 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
	Without Further Ado 3.67 avg rating — 924 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
	There's No Such Book by Jessica Dettmann, Jake A Minton (Illustrations) 4.34 avg rating — 47 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
	Second Best: Published in Australia as How to be Second Best 3.25 avg rating — 4 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

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“Lola is a sociopath in a children's book and TV series, sister of Charlie, one of the great long-suffering brothers of literature.”
― Jessica Dettmann, How to Be Second Best

tags: children-s-books, humour, literature

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“Forty-five minutes and many pairs of kids' pyjamas, handballs and packets of coloured pencils later, I have had to swap my basket for a trolley, but when I get through the self-checkout and find out the total is forty-seven dollars, I'm so horrified by the low price that I abandon it all. That was a pricing mistake they made there. They made it so low it alarmed me and reminded me what a lot of mass-produced tat it was, and how it was possibly made my small exploited children in the third world. If the total had been seventy dollars I probably would have bought the lot.”
― Jessica Dettmann, How to Be Second Best

tags: cheap, materialism, spending

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“It's your funeral. Which will happen sooner than it needs to, because I read that married people live longer than single people.'
'That's not true,' I reply. 'It just feels longer.”
― Jessica Dettmann, How to Be Second Best

tags: humour, life-expectancy, marriage

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November 2019 Group Read - Humour

The Single Ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village by Joanna Nell

43 votes, 63.2%

Thirsty by Joel Creasey

13 votes, 19.1%

How to Be Second Best by Jessica Dettmann

12 votes, 17.6%

68 total votes

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