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Layla Byrnes is exhausted. She's juggling a demanding job as an anaesthetist, a disintegrating marriage, her young kids, and a needy lover. And most particularly she's managing her histrionically unstable mother, who repeatedly threatens to kill herself. But this year, it's different. When her mother rings just before Christmas, she doesn't follow the usual script. Instead, she tells Layla that there's something she needs to tell her about her much-loved father. In response, Layla drops everything to rush to her childhood home on the wild west coast of Tasmania. She's determined to finally confront her mother--and find out what really happened to her father--and lay some demons to rest. Lyrical, vivid and compulsively readable, The Heart is a Star is a powerfully engrossing novel about the complicated and beautiful messiness of midlife; about the ways in which we navigate an intricate, complicated world; and about how we can only uncover our true selves when we are forced to face the myths that make us. ""Powerful, lyrical ... I was enthralled by its physical and emotional landscapes and compelled by its dark mysteries.""--Lee Kofman, The Writer Laid Bare

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Megan Rogers is an author whose first novel is The Heart Is a Star. She began her working life as an editorial assistant. In 2014 she finished a PhD in creative writing, which resulted in the book Finding the Plot, A Maternal Approach to Madness in Literature, published by feminist publisher Demeter Press. She also has a bachelor of arts and science degree, a diploma of professional writing and editing, a graduate diploma in professional communication, and a masters in marketing. She lives outside Melbourne. The Heart Is a Star is her first novel. Instagram: @megan_rogers_writer. meganrogerswriter.com. Susan Lyons has appeared on numerous television shows, including A Country Practice, Police Rescue, Something in the Air, and All Saints. Among her film credits are Winds of Jarrah and In a Savage Land. She is married to Tony Award-winning actor Jefferson Mays.

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