Life In Seven Mistakes

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After years of patient, passionate effort, Elizabeth Barton's career as a ceramicist is finally taking off. She's about to fly to New York for her first solo show at one of the world's most prestigious galleries. First, though, she has to survive Christmas with her family on the Gold Coast. Why is it impossible to act our age in front of our parents And how can we begin to care for ageing parents we've spent our lives trying to avoid Life in Seven Mistakes is a black family comedy with an unexpected, and deeply moving, climax.

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Susan Johnson's books include Messages from Chaos, Flying Lessons, A Big Life, Hungry Ghosts, and A Better Woman. She also edited the anthologies Latitudes - New Writing from the North, and Womenlovesex. Her novel The Broken Book was long-listed for the Miles Franklin Award and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.