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Lorena Otes

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Born

Sydney NSW, Australia

Website

https://www.lorenaotes.com.au/

Genre

Memoir, Fiction

Member Since

May 2024

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Born and bred on Sydney’s Northern beaches, Lorena Otes is a mother, author and dance teacher. Her deeply personal memoir, Solo Mum by Choice (Hawkeye Publishing), tells of her journey to and through a unique but exponentially growing version of solo motherhood through the lens of her own experience. It placed runner-up in the Hawkeye Publishing Manuscript Development Prize 2024.

She has written for Feels Blind Literary, The Brussels Review, Mamamia Online, and Bounty Parents. Her humour articles have appeared in Witcraft Magazine, Defenestration Literary Humour Magazine, Scalar Comet, and Little Old Lady Comedy.

Lorena is a flash-fiction-writing tragic. Her stories have longlisted in the Australian Writers’ Centre’s Furious Fiction competit ...more

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Average rating: 4.86 · 122 ratings · 69 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

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Lorena Otes rated a book it was amazing The Time After Now by Anne Freeman (Goodreads Author)	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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Lorena Otes liked Ariane Beeston's review of Solo Mum by Choice: "I loved this book! It was funny, insightful, entertaining - and such a page-turner. I know it will be a comfort to many and an important resource for those supporting loved ones or patients. Can't wait to see what Lorena does next."
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Lorena Otes liked Sarah Todman's review of Solo Mum by Choice: "I cried many times while reading this beautiful, heartfelt memoir, but the passage below absolutely wrecked me. 'That's the thing about IVF: everyone dwells on how hard it is. And yes, getting failure after failure is bloody hard. But in those failed" Read more of this review »
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Lorena Otes rated a book it was amazing Because I'm Not Myself, You See: A Memoir of Motherhood, Madness and Coming Back From the Brink by Ariane Beeston	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
Stunning, upsetting, but ultimately hopeful. Ariane Beeston has left nothing on the table with this exquisitely written, raw, heartbreaking account of postpartum psychosis. With depth and honesty, readers are immersed into her world and at times it c ...more
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Lorena Otes rated a book it was amazing Under Silkwood by Greg Bourke	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 the cane fields of north Queensland, Under Silkwood has a little bit of everything – from intrigue, romance, scandal and secrets (so many secrets). There are surprising twists too, and I was compelled through to the very end. When young gradua ...more
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