Unbecoming

About the book

There are secrets in the wild country they call midlife




You can do one night, Jo reminds herself as she follows five women into the Australian bush.




Where are they going to sleep? And pee?




Jo probably should have let her husband Frank know. Just in case. Because you never know what can happen in the wild.




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While on her three-month marriage-and-motherhood sabbatical in the country, Jo bumps into an old friend, Fiona, who invites her on a ‘sacred’, silent walk to mark her 57th birthday – the first since her husband Ben died.




The last thing Jo wants is to share anything about herself – these are Fiona’s friends, not hers. And what’s she going to...