Those Hamilton Sisters

by Averil Kenny

  Finally, I want thank my children – Dash, Aurora, Eleanor and Teddy – who must sometimes feel like this book is my favourite child. Thank you, Kenny Kids, for endless cups of tea and your unswerving belief in me. Achieving my publishing dream might have taken longer for having birthed four of you, but this accomplishment is infinitely sweeter for being shared with you.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Averil Kenny grew up on a dairy farm and began work in the tourism industry at a young age. She studied Education at James Cook University, before completing a Bachelor of Journalism at the University of Queensland. She currently lives in Far North Queensland with her husband and four children. When not dreaming up stories, she can be found nestled in her favourite yellow wingback chair reading and sipping tea, in her library overlooking the rainforest. Those Hamilton Sisters is her first novel.

  First published in 2021

  This ebook edition published in 2021 by

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  Copyright © Averil Kenny, 2021

  Cover design by Midnight Purple Design, instagram.com/midnight_purple_design

  Cover image of three women © Stephen Mulcahey / Trevillion Images

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  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organisations, places and events are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

  A catalogue entry for this book is available from the National Library of Australia

  ISBN: 978-1-76068-689-5

  Paperback ISBN: 978-1-76068-671-0

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