fiction
New Year's Eve
A quirky outback romance with all the feels
Who says coming of age is just for teenagers?
Eve Anderson just turned 30. This year she is going to grow up.
I love complex female characters—ones that are feisty, but maybe a little bit broken—and that's Eve to a tee. Here's the blurb:
Being born on the last day of the year has never done Eve any favours, but this year her birthday set off a series of rolling explosions rather than fireworks. An affair with a married man just crashed and burned, her career is in tatters and now there’s a phone call from her mother she can’t ignore. Eve is forced to slink back to the outback town she ditched at 18 and face the family she’s been actively ignoring, the teenage love she never forgot, and the pub (or is that ‘family home’?—you say potato, I say ‘po-taa-to’!) that holds too many of her secrets.
New Year's Eve was released with Hawkeye Publishing on 4 May 2024.
My own small town story
When I was 6 years old my Dad took our family on a tree change…way before tree changes were even a thing.
We left our very average suburban existence in Brisbane to move to a little town in Western Queensland and live in a pub.
Dad had been a chemist. Now he and Mum were publicans. My 7 siblings and I became the business' unofficial staff.
For the next 15 years this was our family home. It was an interesting one.
My childhood provided some of the inspiration for New Year’s Eve, which is set in a pub. One of the things I loved most about writing the story was creating all of the pub characters - staff & drinkers alike.
Growing up it felt like there was an ever- changing cast characters in our ‘home’ & I’ve tried to capture some of that vibrancy in my first novel.
Bab The Rabbit books
Bab The Rabbit is a curious rabbit who loves adventure.
My collaboration with illustrator Jerry Liu brings Bab to life in his own picture book series written for children aged 4-9.
Book #1 Bab's Mermaid Adventure was released in 2021.
Book #2, Bab's Camping Adventure was released in 2022.
Visit the Bab the Rabbit website here.
©️Sarah Todman 2024