Book description
"I am deadly, desirable and delicious"... is Alice's mantra
as she hilariously negotiates her way throught the rocky terrain of
singledom. Alice Aigner is successful, independent and a confirmed
serial dater - but at her ten-year school reunion she has a sudden
change of heart. Bored rigid by her married, mortgaged and motherly
former classmates, Alice decides to prove that a woman can have it all:
a man, marriage, career, kids and a mind of her own. She sets herself a
goal: meet the perfect man and marry him before her thirtieth birthday,
just under two years away. Together with her best friends Dannie, Liza
and Peta, Alice draws up a ten-point plan. Then, with a little help from
her mum, her dad, her brothers, her colleagues and her neighbour across
the hall, she sets out to find Mr Right. Unfortunately for Alice, it's
not quite as easy as she imagines  Who could not fall in love with our
Koori heroine as she dates (among others): Renan, whose career goal is
to be the world's best moonwalker and male hula dancer; Tufu the
commitment-phobic Samoan football player; scary Simon the one-night
stand; and Paul - Mr Dreamboat, but perhaps too good to be true. All the
while, Alice skilfully avoids dating Cliff, son of her mum's friend, a
confirmed bachelor who isn't likely to settle down with a woman anytime
soon. Anita is a writer, poet, activist, social commentator and
academic. She is the author of Yirra and her deadly dog, Demon, I'm not
racist, but... , My Story: the diary of Mary Talence, Sydney 1937, and a
series of chick lit novels including Not Meeting Mr Right and Paris
Dreaming. Her work has been shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary
Awards Young People's History Prize and she has won the DEADLY award for
writing a number of times. She is a member of the Wiradjuri nation of
central New South Wales, but grew up in Matraville, Sydney.
