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Wrong Way, Go Back
I am a failure.
Yeah, sure, I hear you say. What's the problem? Broken up with your boyfriend? Eaten a few too many tubs of quadruple fudgey double double chocolate-chunk your jeans won't fit in the morning ripple? And now you've developed a lovely big zit on your chin. Well poor squiddly diddums.
Yep, I'm sure you think you've read it all before. But believe me, it's true. I am a complete and utter failure. A loser. Literally.
You see, in the past six months, I have lost everything. My company, my husband and, only a few minutes ago, my lover. Frankly, there's nowhere else to go from here - this is rock bottom.
The funny thing is how fast it's all happened. I can't remember the point where things turned around and started to go bad. It was like everything was perfect and then, suddenly, I was left with nothing. On New Year's Day, you could have said I had a snow dome of a life. A life that was shaken constantly by some divine hand - glittering and sparkly. I had my own multi-million dollar pyjama empire that I built from scratch. I had journalists queuing up to interview me. I had a husband who loved me and I loved him back. I was happy. And then some clumsy oaf dropped the snow dome.
The stupid thing is that clumsy oaf was me, Dicey Dye (we'll get to that later, believe me, it's not my real name).
Dicey has taken the wrong turn in her life and when it all collapses in a screaming heap she is forced to reassess what she really wants and who she wants to share it with. Enjoy this hilarious journey with her as she struggles to get her life back together with the help of her sister, her best friend and an Irish Wolfhound named Fergus.
Yeah, sure, I hear you say. What's the problem? Broken up with your boyfriend? Eaten a few too many tubs of quadruple fudgey double double chocolate-chunk your jeans won't fit in the morning ripple? And now you've developed a lovely big zit on your chin. Well poor squiddly diddums.
Yep, I'm sure you think you've read it all before. But believe me, it's true. I am a complete and utter failure. A loser. Literally.
You see, in the past six months, I have lost everything. My company, my husband and, only a few minutes ago, my lover. Frankly, there's nowhere else to go from here - this is rock bottom.
The funny thing is how fast it's all happened. I can't remember the point where things turned around and started to go bad. It was like everything was perfect and then, suddenly, I was left with nothing. On New Year's Day, you could have said I had a snow dome of a life. A life that was shaken constantly by some divine hand - glittering and sparkly. I had my own multi-million dollar pyjama empire that I built from scratch. I had journalists queuing up to interview me. I had a husband who loved me and I loved him back. I was happy. And then some clumsy oaf dropped the snow dome.
The stupid thing is that clumsy oaf was me, Dicey Dye (we'll get to that later, believe me, it's not my real name).
Dicey has taken the wrong turn in her life and when it all collapses in a screaming heap she is forced to reassess what she really wants and who she wants to share it with. Enjoy this hilarious journey with her as she struggles to get her life back together with the help of her sister, her best friend and an Irish Wolfhound named Fergus.
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First published October 26, 2011
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About the author
Alli Kincaid
2 books1 followerAlli Kincaid is a freelance writer/editor from Brisbane, Australia. She is addicted to the fake cheese stuff on corn chips and loves her three-legged cat Hermoine. (The dog next door ate the other leg.) Educationally speaking, she has a BA in Journalism/Russian and a Graduate Diploma in Editing and Publishing. For money, she prostitutes her writing skills to wedding magazines; for love, she writes fiction and creative non-fiction. All this is a far cry from what she wanted to be when she was five years old - a ballerina with pierced ears.
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October 16, 2014
Not too good, but not too bad either. I'd recommend it for a silly beach read
July 13, 2020
An easy, lightweight holiday read. It's always interesting to read a book set in an area you know and recognise.
February 14, 2012
To be honest, I felt very confused at the beginning of this novel, but I'm not sure if that was because of the side effects of the medication I'm currently on, or the book itself. All I know is I kind of floated through the beginning, and just accepted everything.
Now, if you were expecting a rollicking thrill ride, then this isn't for you. It's more about feelings and memories, and mini wagon wheels. Every character comes to a resolution by the end, for better or worse. The journey there isn't particularly exciting, but this was just the kind of slow paced book I needed. It's not even 'romantic' in a sense, but more realizing what you have, and what you can be. So four stars!
Now, if you were expecting a rollicking thrill ride, then this isn't for you. It's more about feelings and memories, and mini wagon wheels. Every character comes to a resolution by the end, for better or worse. The journey there isn't particularly exciting, but this was just the kind of slow paced book I needed. It's not even 'romantic' in a sense, but more realizing what you have, and what you can be. So four stars!
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