Dianne Blacklock: 10 books

“Dianne is one of Australia’s most beloved writers of women’s fiction and if you haven’t yet read any of her books, you’re in for a special treat.” — Liane Moriarty It’s 1980, and Kathryn Rowland is young and ambitious. She has precise plans drawn out for her future and no one...

'Taste was such an evocative sense; Andie had closed her eyes, with the scone melting in her mouth, and been transported back to her grandmother's kitchen ...' Nourishment is nurture. That's what Andie learned from her grandmother and what she's always believed, but somehow, since marrying...

Jo had learned the hard way that life was not mystical, or magical; it was hard and grey and cold most of the time. Much better to see it for what it is than to be perennially disappointed. It's not as though Jo Liddell never had dreams. She was going to be a journalist and travel the world,...

Helen and Gemma, two women who couldn't be more different, are thrown together when their lives take an unexpected turn. Helen always tries to be a good person - she recycles, she is even polite to telemarketers. As a mother, wife, daughter and nurse, Helen is used to putting everyone's needs...

Of course Meg was a success: she planned, she set goals, she made lists. Ally never made lists. Ally Tasker is trapped in a dead-end teaching job and a relationship that's going nowhere. Her college friend Meg has a fabulous job in advertising, a doting husband and a gorgeous baby boy. Why...

'Well, we're different, we lead such different lives. I'm not sure how we'll go now without Annie. She was like Carrie, you know, in Sex and the City. Annie was our Carrie.' Without Annie, friends Catherine, Lexie and Rachel are lost. How will they fill the void? Will their friendship survive? Catherine...

It's no big deal to love someone who's perfect . . . The trick is to love someone despite the fact they're not. With a beautiful house in an upscale Sydney suburb and two successful careers, anyone would think that Mac and Anna have the perfect life. But their marriage is cracking under the...

When she was a little girl, all Samantha Driscoll ever wanted was to be somebody's wife. She would marry a man called Tod or Brad and she would have two perfect children. But instead she married a Jeff and he's just confessed to having an affair. Desperate times indeed. Sam has to find a way...

The Beckett sisters need to shake things up. Emma has been planning her dream wedding even since she was a little girl, and she's determined to get her happy ending. Just as soon as her boyfriend Blake gets around to proposing ... Liz is a well respected and successful doctor and supposedly...

Is the best man always the right man? With American fiancé, Henry Darrow, publicist Madeleine has at last found the yin to her yang - or whichever way round it is. The calm to her storm, the stillness to her constant motion. Balance. Her boss, Liv, had to be talked into marriage, which...