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Beautiful Messy Love

Tess Woods

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Aug 01, 2017 Tanya rated it it was amazing

You know when you pick up a book that is truly epic and life changing, and you just want to put everything on hold to finish it? Ignore the family, call in sick to work, just refuse to budge until you have absorbed every last page?

Beautiful Messy Love is one of those books.

I was lucky enough to get a copy from NetGalley in exchange for a review. But you know what's? I love it so much I'm going to go out and buy a copy to give to my mum and everyone I know who reads. It's just the darned good.

Lil ...more

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Jul 30, 2017 Janine rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Another fabulous novel by Tess Woods. This book picks up where her first book - Love at first flight basically ended, and continues the story about Mel's children Lily and Nick. Nick is now a top AFL player in WA and Lily is a med. student. They both meet people who turn their lives around - Anna who is caring for her mother and a young refugee boy, and Toby who has recently lost his wife through cancer, what transpires definitely matches the title - Beautiful Messy Love.

This book covers grief, ...more

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Jun 12, 2018 Nicola Marsh added it

Shelves: aussie-authors, commercial-fiction, women-s-fiction, romance, read-in-2018

What a rollicking good read!

I'm a huge AFL fan so having a hero who plays AFL is a huge bonus. Loved Nick Harding!
All the characters came alive on the pages and had me turning at a rapid rate.
The cultural angle, and Anna's incredible backstory, was riveting.

Thoroughly enjoyed. ...more

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Apr 06, 2021 Lauredhel rated it it was ok

Shelves: contemporary, australian-women-writers-challenge, australian, western-australia, not-a-romance, aww2021

YIKES - transphobia ambush. Don't know if I'll continue.
ETA: continued, inexplicably. Annoying unexplained insta-love, hero makes fun of heroine's Egyptian accent, "curves in all the right places", footy-player hero-worship, *snore*. Sorry, I try to love local books, but this is really not working ...more

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