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The replacement wife is complete at 85,000 words. A commercial women's women’s fiction novel. Told from the alternate perspectives of the mistress and the wife, the reader is drawn into a modern day love triangle, with a fatal edge.

If you are an agent looking for a client, please send me your proposal, short CV and writing credits to date. Due to the sheer volume of submissions, assume if you haven't heard from me within three months, then your agency is not for me. (Only kidding). Please represent me!

Writing credits:
Commonwealth Short story competition 2007 - In arms
Loose Leaves Poetry competition 2010 - Under the Wig
Shortlisted in Bridport prize 2011. Mslexia shortlist short story competition 2013.

I am part of the Women's fiction group. A really supportive group of writers who commit to critiquing each others novels
and go beyond chapter one (which is fantastic). You can find the lovely ladies here http://www.authonomy.com/forums/threads/90500/women-s-fiction-crit-group/

I will return all reads, whether you shelve my novel or not, but I won't bother if you do a fly by shelving (less than 24 hours) or leave a generic comment.

favourite books

The book of Dave
The Book Thief
A fine Balance
Oryx and Crake
We need to talk about Kevin
The time travellers wife
The handmaids tale
Beloved
1984
Love in the time of cholera
The troublesome offspring of Cardinal Guzman (rest of trilogy)
Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Authonomy books I have read all of and love (past and present):
Monsoon Season (now published)
Comerford
The circling song (available as an e-book)
Summer blast (published in 2011)
Slum (available as an e-book)
Wolfmother


RECENTLY READ: When God was a Rabbit by Sarah Winman. Micka by Frances Kay. The fault in our stars by John Green. The Hunger games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. Qualities of Wood by Mary Vensel White. The Goon Squad by Jenny Egan. The wasp factory by Iain Banks. The stranger by Camus. Other People's Secrets by Louise Candlish. Monsoon Season by Katie O'Rourke (yes the authonomy Katie).The testament of Jessie Lamb by Jane Rogers. Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson. The Bitch by Les Edgerton. Since You Went Away by Liz Astor & The Almond Tree by Michelle Cohen Corasanti. Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald. Small Wars by Sadie Jones. The book of Dave by Will Self. The puzzle of God by Peter Vardy. Ten things I have learnt about love by Sarah Butler.

CURRENTLY READING: Life after Life by Kate Atkinson.

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The replacement wife

Juliet O'Callaghan

The replacement wife is an 85,000 word commercial women’s fiction novel about two women who are in love with the same man.


Despite an enormous crush on her charismatic boss, Rebecca is not a marriage wrecker and contents herself with friendship and fantasy. That is, until she finds out Flynn's wife is dying of cancer. When he confides in her that the physical side of his marriage is already dead, their friendship deepens into an affair.

Following the devastating news that the cancer has spread, despite facially disfiguring surgery, Madeleine is determined her second marriage will not fail. Blaming herself for the distance that has opened up between herself and Flynn, she throws herself into planning a round the world trip starting in India, convinced once they leave England, the intimacy will return.

Will Madeleine make it to India? Will Rebecca dance on her grave?

 

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JennyWren wrote 2 days ago

Juliet - thank you so much for backing my book and also for leaving a....

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Thanks for the backing, Juliet Ann, and for the ace comment. That 'Au....

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Hi Juliet Ann, Thank you, thank you! Your backing is much apprecia....

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Hello. How are you? I would appreciate to switch comments and feedbac....

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I wrote 2 days ago

I've read two more chapters and this really has a great pace. You generally mix background and current plot very well, so that the reader can make sense of what is happening. However there are a few paragraphs in chapter 3, where again you drift from close POV and tell the reader stuff (for example ... view book

I wrote 2 days ago

Just read chapter one and really enjoyed it up until the final 3 paragraphs, where you switch from close POV to narrator and give me a brief history lesson. I would cut it on the end dialogue 'you may learn something you don't really want to know' and go straight into chapter two. I don't need to kn... view book

I wrote 3 days ago

really enjoyed what I have read of this. There is an intelligence and objectiveness that lifts this from misery lit (philosophical and quantum). Not sure I agree with the author's note on addictive personality and genetics (epigenetics is a new a fascinating area, which reveals just how complicated ... view book

I wrote 3 days ago

Saw your shout out on the forums and came over to have a look - your pitch immediately grabbed my attention - sort of a female superman idea - and I clicked on the first chapter eagerly. However, the opening does not live up to the pitch, imo. It is rather pedestrian and slow. start with something e... view book

I wrote 128 days ago

I've read the opening two chapters on here and you certainly have grabbed my attention. I am still getting my head around what is actually happening - and I am not sure I am fully getting the suits and why Xavier's parents wouldn't swap their suit for his (if they have longer). But I am certainly in... view book

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