Australian author Melanie La'Brooy's latest novel Bittersweet (known as The Wedding Planner in the UK) explores the bittersweet bonds of family as a celebrity sister gets married. The summary says: "Sabrina Falks is the golden girl; a beautiful, successful actress who is engaged to the too-good-to-be-true Edward. Her life is glamorous and seemingly perfect - apart from her recurring desire to run away. Her younger sister Mimi is funny and bright but also hopelessly lost, with no career prospects, no money, no love life and a string of disastrous mistakes in her past, all of which seem to be curiously linked. Returning from overseas, Mimi is forced into a reluctant reconciliation with her estranged sister when Sabrina hires Mimi to be her bridesmaid. The sisters then join forces to do battle with intrusive paparazzi, out-of-control dress designers and, occasionally, with each other ..." You can read an extract at her publisher's website. In an interview on the Penguin site, La'Brooy says Bittersweet delves into more serious themes than her previous romantic comedies. La'Brooy has recently moved to South Africa.

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