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Holly Cardamone

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Holly Cardamone is a Melbourne-based author and communications specialist. Her writing has appeared in publications as diverse as bridal tomes and in fashion magazines, in trade publications and in the large dailies. Her debut novel, Summer, in Between was the 2024 winner of the Hawkeye Publishing Manuscript Development Prize and will be published by Hawkeye in September 2025.

She’s a mother of two, wife to a devilishly handsome Carlton Football Club tragic and slave to the most beautiful boy in the world, Buddy the Australian Shepherd. She’s also a voracious reader who has been known to mumble ‘just one more page’ on more than a handful of occasions.

Average rating: 4.7 · 113 ratings · 75 reviews · 5 distinct worksSimilar authors
Summer, in Between

4.70 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 2025
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Tell Your Story: Build your...

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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2022
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In the Long Run by Emma Mugglestone
In the Long Run
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Oh my heart! This novel made me snort-laugh and clutch my chest at its poignancy at the same time.
While I’ve run a marathon and have the chafe scars to prove it, you don’t need to be a runner to be swept up in this story. Emma’s writing is sublimely
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King Tide by Luke       Johnson
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Gah, this was so good! Thrilling, creepy, relatable thanks to growing up in a coastal community, although the king tide hasn’t revealed anything, yet…

The characters are tightly drawn, the voices pitch perfect and the pacing bang on. I loved the dual
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Wandering Wild by Lynette Noni
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I really loved this YA adventure/romance novel as an adult, and I know FOR A FACT that teen Holly would have adored it!

I loved the fast pace, the action, the way the heavier themes of grief and loyalty and friendship are handled. The adventure sequen
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Gah, this was so good! Thrilling, creepy, relatable thanks to growing up in a coastal community, although the king tide hasn’t revealed anything, yet…

The characters are tightly drawn, the voices pitch perfect and the pacing bang on. I loved the dual
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What Did I Miss? by Holly Brunnbauer
What Did I Miss?
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This was a fun and fabulous rom-com with some deeper layers. Makayla as a character is so fully fleshed she feels like an old friend. The banter is on point, and Beau is the perfect book boyfriend.
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The Florentine Quilt by Chrissie Bellbrae
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Three heroines. Three timelines. Mythology. Romance. Mystery. Walhalla. Italy! Come at me!

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Australian textile conservator, Theodora Harris, is grieving her grandmother's death when offered an internship to restore a medieval
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Salty, Spiced, and a Little Bit Nice by Cynthia Timoti
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I absolutely loved this romcom 🔥 Salty, Spiced and a Little Bit Nice was almost exactly what it said on the box, but the ‘little bit’ doesn’t accurately convey the snort laughs and the beautiful, fresh trope delivery. Fun and fast paced, it also deli ...more
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