Joanne Fedler's Books
Sep.01.2012
This book will change the way you see yourself, and how you think about long-term love.
We can’t get enough of doomed lovers torn apart by betrayal, taboo and violence – as long as they stay on the screen or the page. In our own beds we want the happy ending.
But all around us, divorce statistics rocket as the hopes of lonely singles plummet. In an age of financial and...
Oct.01.2008
One evening in late June a group of women friends get together at Louise's house. Natalie brings the red wine, Tamara some gluten-free delight as well as her fully charged mobile (her husband still can't seem to get two children to bed without calling her at least 6 times). Fiona will haul out her aromatherapy kit and they can count on Lou to bring along at least a kilo of...
Jun.01.2007
Themes of forbidden love, family conflict, and female liberation are woven together in this dramatic story of family secrets and domestic wars that still rage in a suburban Johannesburg family three generations after fleeing European anti-Semitism in the 1920s.
Things Without a Name is a curious love-story set in the chaotic universe of rape and domestic violence. Faith is a legal counselor at a women’s crisis centre. She’s a hardened vegetarian, a rabid anti-smoker, who doesn’t kill spiders, and her best friend Carol, a social worker at the centre, is intermittently suicidal. Faith’s younger sister Libby is getting breast implants as an...
About Joanne
Part-mother, part-wife, all-writer, I live in sunny Sydney, 100 metres from Coogee beach. With a couple of books behind me, and one freak of a bestseller (Secret Mothers' Business), my new book, When Hungry, Eat, a spiritual memoir about losing weight and...