Better than the Real Thing

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Notting Hill meets Bridget Jones Baby in this whip-smart, funny, emotionally-charged contemporary fiction about messy pasts, second chances and future families from a sparkling new voice.

Melbourne teacher Netta Phillips is staring down the barrel of her fortieth birthday with her relationship in the bin, months of negative pregnancy tests and a mortgage she can't afford. Things really aren't going to plan.
When she finds the childhood diary of celebrity musician Morrison 'Mo' Maplestone, he offers to pay her to personally return it to him in London. Fiercely private, Mo's desperate to keep its darks contents hidden from the tabloids. With his career already on life support and his secret charity in jeopardy things are messy enough, but it's worse than that - the diary's secrets would shatter his beloved younger brother's world.
For Netta, the money would solve everything. She could keep her apartment and try assisted conception treatments; after all, the clock's ticking. But Netta can't return to the UK. Not for anything.
Then necessity bites. Netta reluctantly accepts Mo's offer and things quickly become more complicated for them both. There's paparazzi to contend with, a fake date that feels all-too-real and a Christmas Day confession that changes everything.
Amongst the chaos, Netta and Mo find connection, and discover that facing up to the past might be the only way to find the real thing with each other. Or maybe something even better than the real thing...