Lucy McCarraher

Lucy McCarraher’s latest novel, Mr Mikey’s Ladies, is not only an affectionately cynical - and very funny - look at the sex lives of midlife women, but a perceptive portrait of the character flaws, complex insecurities and emotional conundrums within differing dysfunctional relationships.

The eponymous Mr Mikey is a hairdresser - sorry, colour and styling artiste - with his own salon in Balmain, Sydney’s trendy media suburb, set up in the house he shares with his wife Dolly and toddler Baby Bry, aka The Brat. It sounds like an ideal set up, but both Michael and Dolly are desperate to get out of their marriage of inconvenience.

Poignant, melodramatic and hilarious, Mr Mikey’s Ladies is a tightly-edited, deftly-written novel that packs its pages with intrigue aplenty.

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