Like Being A Wife

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Daisy is married to her job, Shirley de Young is engaged to Jack but would as soon be married to herself, while Joannie has left her husband for a fling with the movie star, Ralph Fiennes. Brad is inspired by the Eureka uprising to break up with his girlfriend, and an unexpected influx of babies - 2,000 of them - calls into question the meaning of Jenny's life. Flitting from Sydney to Melbourne, Canberra to California, this loosely linked collection of stories shines a bright fluorescent light on family, friendships, work, love and loss.

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Catherine Harris's short stories and essays have been published in Australia, Canada, England and the USA. She won the Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize for short story in 2009. Her forthcoming short story collection, Like Being A Wife, was shortlisted for the 2009 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards for an unpublished manuscript. An award-winning scriptwriter, Catherine is currently working on a novel, supported by a grant from the Australia Council.