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Fran Cusworth

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Fran Cusworth is an Australian author and freelance writer, who lives in Melbourne with her husband and two young sons.
Her new and fourth novel, The Near Miss, is a suburban family comedy which sees three very different people thrown together after a near-death accident.
Grace, hardworking and tired, wants another baby. But she's dealing with debt, a manic 4-year-old and a jobless husband determined to make his inventions into reality. Can both Grace and Tom get their way, or will competing dreams tear their marriage apart?
Eddy analyses risk for a living, but his insecurities have brought his own life to a halt. He won't let go of the flighty, unfaithful Romy, but will he ever risk believing in himself?
Melody is trying to raise her son Ski
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Average rating: 3.45 · 222 ratings · 43 reviews · 6 distinct worksSimilar authors
Sisters of Spicefield

3.44 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions
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Hopetoun Wives

3.17 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions
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The Near Miss

3.78 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions
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The Love Child

3.53 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions
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The Near Miss

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