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By: Liane

Liane — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 04:16:40 +0000

Dear Maryellen, thank you so much! am very taken with the phrase ‘must read everything she has written author’. I will talk to my US publishers about a glossary (we actually take out quite a few Australianisms for the US edition!).
And I’m so sorry about your FB messages!! How embarrassing. I don’t know why, but Facebook and I have a sort of personality clash. Lianex

By: Maryellen Grady

Maryellen Grady — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 16:24:11 +0000

You are my new “must read everything she has written author “starting backwards from Hypnotist which I enjoyed so much. My only tiny complaint is that I wished there was a brief Australian-American glossary somewhere, as I am too lazy to Google each term I am not familiar with. Speaking of familiar, you sure do know lots about mature love both married and single, family relations, feminist issues, work and motherhood and lots of other things including hypnotism and amnesia. And you make it all so addictively page-turning. I love your books!

And thanks for telling me why my FB messages are so frequently deleted.

By: Liane

Liane — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 05:05:02 +0000

Hi Tammy,
Hope you like the book! And welcome back to Facebook after your hiatus, I am still a Facebook Failure I’m afraid, Lianex

By: Tammy

Tammy — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 06:06:50 +0000

I ordered your book from the library immediately – so excited about reading it!

It is the same in my family, we only take pictures of the babies.

and I am back on facebook after a two-year hiatus, and in the time that I didn’t have it, my friends were much the same as your sisters!

By: Liane

Liane — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:52:10 +0000

Thank you so much Sandy!

By: Sandy

Sandy — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 23:06:06 +0000

Liane, Loved WHAT ALICE FORGOT

By: Liane

Liane — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 06:45:23 +0000

Dear Louise,
I’m sorry I havent responded to your comment earlier, but I think I chatted to you on Facebook,
But again, thank you so much!
Liane

By: Louise

Louise — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:27:55 +0000

Liane, I’m reading What Alice Forgot and just LOVING IT! Your book was on the NYTimes best of summer reads list and I decided I’d do something different this summer and chose 1-2 books from their list. At first it was a bit slow going to get into Alice but then something clicked in place for me and now I can’t wait to get home from work and enter her world.
My mother is 91 and her memory is changing. When I’m with her on the weekends I think of Alice and wonder more deeply about what my momma is experiencing. I’m starting Chapter 26 and want to THANK YOU for your brilliant, funny, poignant writing.

When I was growing up the person I got to know from another country was a woman from Australia. She and her husband met during THE war. She moved to the states and they bought a farm here in southern Oregon which they called Westralia. She was the first person I knew who had an herb garden and one with a sun dial which she’d brought from her home country.

I write poetry and have written some essays which have been published in anthologies about women’s spirituality because that’s what my doctoral work is. All that is to say how much I respect the craft of writing and what dedication it takes to create a sizeable work. THANK YOU FOR YOUR BEAUTIFUL WORK. I will not forget what I’m experiencing through What Alice Forgot!

By: Liane

Liane — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 05:55:22 +0000

Hello there Mirelle in Holland, I agree, what was wrong with simple, old-fashioned emailing? Although I probably will eventually become a Facebook convert. I’m just a bit slow off the mark with these things. A ‘stack’ is when you’re skiing and you fall over, but you do it impressively, ideally your skis fall off and people stop to watch and your goggles are full of snow.
Hi there Claire, how are you? I promise I’ll let you known when the new book is out in the UK, and no, no, no – please don’t say I have to do twitter as well, I have reached the outer limits of my social networking skills (apparently I’m already showing bad Facebook etiquette by not ‘liking’ back the pages of people who have liked me – the stress, the stress!)
Hi Eveleynn, OK, I promise I will do actual updates, and not just laze about on Facebook enjoying hearing about everyone else’s lives…
Hello Kati, I know! It’s me! I should have photoshopped me out. I look like a garden gnome. And yes, I know, I have to do status updates. I’m just developing a bit of a phobia about it,
And thank you Kerry, I’m very happy you enjoyed What Alice Forgot, and I will try to be worthy of being followed on Facebook! (I fell like I’m making a whole of of New Years Resolutions here that I know I’m not going to keep)
Hi Kirsten (and Michelle if you’re here too, and you weren’t just politely nodding your head when Kirsten suggested this blog) I’m very happy to hear about you seeing my book on Michelle’s book case, when I was house hunting a few years back I was always obsessively looking at people’s shelves for my books and I never ever saw one. I probably would have bought the house if I ever had seen one. And I’m sure any good bookshop would let you pre-order the Hypnotist’s Love Story. If they say they can’t, could you please look aghast for the benefit of nearby customers? Thank you,
Liane xx

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 03:44:22 +0000

1st October! It’s in my calendar… I can’t wait. I was in Brisbane last weekend visiting an old friend and when I was checking out her bookcase (as you do – well as I do) I came across a very dog-earred copy of What Alice Forgot and was delighted to find Michelle is as big a fan as I am of your work. I told her she should come and check out this blog so if you’re here Michelle, thanks again for a great weekend!

Congratulations Liane on making it into the summer reading list – that’s just brilliant. Hopefully more people will post (very positive) reviews on Amazon.

I’ve ‘liked’ you on Facebook (hmmm inverted commas – I’m also 44 sorry I mean also 35!). It’s taken me a while to get the hang of it too. I kept hitting the return key to make nice neat little paragraphs of my thoughts and inadvertently posting half posts…

Can I pre-order The Hypnotists Love Story? If not do you know where I can get a copy on Saturday 1st October at 5am?