Venous Ventura is the Gossip Queen, our numero uno gossip columnist. She loves her job and she loves the good life – designer heels, designer restaurants hot scoops.
So how did she end up enrolled in The Source, an exclusive self help course in Byron Bay? Why is she being forced to 'open her soul' to a pack of needy socialites, earnest hippies and disturbed businessmen intent on finding their inner child, Divine truth and ways to make even more cash?
Throw Ruby Starr – celeb fashion designer and Venous's arch enemy – into the mix, along with J.Lo and a swarm of social wannabes, and you've got chaos, razor-sharp satire, tears before bedtime and plenty of black humour.
Ros Reines' debut novel delivers a sparkling snapshot of the secrets and scandals that thrive in the city's social jungle. Of course, its all fiction . . .
Ros Reines is the author of two novels, Gossip (Penguin, 2005) and The Social Diary (Allen & Unwin, January 2015). Probably best known for her long running gossip column in The Sunday Telegraph, nobody knows more about the currents that ebb and flow in Australia's social swim. Currently working on the sequel to The Social Diary, set in the current time and in three different location, Sydney, Melbourne and Dubai, it will be released towards the end of next year. A proud citizen of Bondi, Ros loves every part of life in this beachside suburb