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Being Tamzin 5
Tamzin’s life is full of new beginnings. There’s never any warning, but every few years it’s a new town, a new name, and another story to tell. The move when she is seventeen is the worst of all. Along with her name, she loses Dequan Qin, and the magical year they were planning when they turned eighteen. Seven years in fairyland took Tamzin away from her misery and brought her a new identity and new loves. Fairy tales end, though, and back in the human realm Tamzin had to reclaim her old identity. With her first love lost to her, and other loves left behind over there, Tamzin meets an old acquaintance and finds new hope and a new certainty. Matin Campania is her world now, but the past has long arms, and despite her efforts to move on, Tamzin is constantly drawn back to the mysteries of her origins. Who is she, really? What was her first identity? As a few old memories slip into place, new mysteries appear. Meanwhile, Tamzin’s friends Daylight Pengellis and her sometime-lover Garret are creating dramas. A new friend and an old one disrupt Tamzin’s serenity further still.
Being Tamzin 6
Christmas 2009 was one of the worst times in Tamzin’s life as she was torn away from her delightful future with her boyfriend, Dequan, by her parents’ machinations. Living unhappily under a new identity, Tamzin ran away to fairy land—literally. Ten years passed and Tamzin was back in New South Wales. Christmas 2018 was unfulfilling, spent with her friends Gillan and Branok St Ives when she longed to be with her new love, Matin. Christmas 2019 brings its own challenges, but at last Tamzin is exactly where she wants to be. Life is good, personally, professionally and socially. Life would be almost perfect if it weren’t for the lingering shadows of her past. Tamzin is living quite close to where she was in 2009, but it isn’t the city of Sydney that holds the answers she feels on the tip of her tongue. A birthday trip to a gallery opening in Adelaide seems an unlikely catalyst, but it’s there at Gallery Spenser that Tamzin faces her memories head on. Finally she learns the truth about the identity switches of her early years, but the question remains—why? Only three people know the answer, but will they be willing to talk?
Emer
When a red kitten claws its way up her gown while she’s out gathering wood, Emer Drumwiddy knows her true love will come to her in eight years’ time. It seems a long time to wait, as she’s already twenty-two. Living alone since her mother married a leprechaun man from far-off Erin a’ Fee, Emer is happy to adopt Red for company. She just doesn’t bargain on getting Rory as well. Rory is an orphan, and he loves Emer from the first time he sees her. As he grows to manhood, he begins to love her in a different way. Emer is fond of her wee laddie, but the eight years are nearly up. What will Rory do when her true love comes to claim her?
Being Tamzin 4
After a turbulent childhood of switched identities and secrecy, Tamzin spent seven years over there, in the fairy realm, before returning to take up the reins of life in the human arena. Returning to her preferred identity of Tamzin Herrick was never going to be easy, but Tamzin achieved it. Established as a freelance artist trading as Elf-Made Art, Tamzin has made friends with the formidable Dames with Dogs, as well as her surrogate family, the St Ives. Her friend Dahlia “Daylight” Pengellis had a complicated social life, and a portrait sitting at Tamzin’s house at Fiddle Bay led to more complications when Daylight and three men started behaving badly. The arrival of a fourth man was the last straw, but he and Tamzin recognised one another from a meeting years before. Matin Campania was unfinished business, and after spending time with him, Tamzin felt more equal to facing the fairy infestation in her house. Having met Matin again, Tamzin was happy to have him in her life, but she was unsure of their exact relationship. Meanwhile, misunderstandings with her friends caused a few more problems, topped off with a meeting with someone else from her more recent past.
One Hundred Roses
After her engagement falls apart just before St Valentine’s Day, Anemone Rose has an unpaid-for party and one hundred red roses going spare. Enter Will, Nick and Dan, who are not quite who they say they are, not where they ought to be, and not even what they claim to be. Nevertheless, these three blond giants have a proposal. They will take the roses off her hands. In return, Anemone may choose one of them as a substitute for her errant fiancé. Oh, and she’d better find two other lonely ladies—one each for the men she doesn’t choose. That’s only fair! Anemone chases them out of her shop with a mop and a bucket of water. That’s when she remembers Penny and Angel, whose delivery she messed up when her fiancé was messing her about back in November. Could they possibly be in the market for two men armed with thirty-three red roses and a naughty disposition? With hours to go before the men’s deal is off the table, Anemone heads to Mother Goose Lane for a crisis meeting with two women she barely knows.
Queen of Tarts 3
With Halloween safely behind her, and her alternating lovers James and Mitch agreeing to share her time, Queenie Hart has more attention to spare for her fledgeling baking business, Queen of Tarts. That’s lucky, for she has a brand-new challenge. Her irascible landlord, Oliver, has laid it upon her to invent and create twelve brand new and original tarts in his honour and to deliver them to him on Christmas Day. Queenie is eager to begin, and Mitch is eager to assist, but life is busy and fallout from Halloween needs to be addressed. What with finding time to be with Mitch, trying to keep in touch with James, taming Ayesha the Terrible, sorting out Shane and Branok, finding out what Angel Petty did with a parcel, and dealing with seven bells with a mind of their own, Queenie barely has time to think. Christmas is coming and twelve new tarts take time to create. The last recipe is elusive. Queenie just hopes she can make the deadline.
Being Tamzin 2
After a life of lies and mystery, Thomasine Forest has fled to the fairy realm of over there. She’s been there for four years, living with a mixed community she knows as the clan. Although she enjoys her life with them, she can’t commit to marrying her lover, Cornelius, because she knows she will eventually return to the human realm to resume her life with her human boyfriend, Dequan. It’s still too soon to return home, so Thomasine embarks on a journey that takes her from the leprechaun village of Balla Cloiche to board the ship Unicorn of the fair wind fleet. Landing on the Island of Summer brings new adventures with two courtfolk men, as well as the realisation of a long-held ambition to go horse-riding. After leaving Summer, Thomasine experiences a sojourn on a magical island and then, by degrees, she makes her way back to Balla Cloiche. She can go home now, but first, she intends to catch up with her beloved clan. Thomasine knows her life is about to change enormously. For one thing, she won’t be Thomasine anymore. It’s time to leave the fairy realm and resume her life as Tamzin Herrick.
Peter G and Gentian
Peter G has finally come of age, and his life as a grown-up pixie man should be speeding ahead. Unfortunately, he’s stuck, waiting for the love of his life to arrive. When they were children, they promised to meet, but where is she? Why hasn’t she come? His cousin is busy with his wife and two children, his friend Joe is moving on in the human world, but Peter G is stuck running messages for friends and family. One day his sister-by-love, Pia, sends him to visit Barbie, the human woman who used to be her husband’s girlfriend. This entails time in the city and a hair-raising interview with Barbie’s hostile husband—but on his return, he finally meets his long-awaited Gentian at the crossing gate. What should be a time of joy and celebration quickly descends into trouble and worry when he discovers he must deal with the imperious Mistress Dandelion as well. Life is suddenly complicated.
Just Eloped
Lili and Chiara never miss a rostered shift at their aunt’s café. When Yannick makes them an offer they don’t want to refuse, they have to make a choice. Trusting their future to a grumpy baker and a Christmas wish is risky, but sharing is their style. Why change that now? Lili and Chiara love their jobs at Fee Kaffee, but after the peach schnapps and poteen incident sets off a family row, their home life feels increasingly restrictive. When Irish Toby tosses them charmed apples, they decide to make a Christmas wish. The café offers a venue, but their apples have vanished. It seems they’re not the only ones using Fee Kaffee for a little Christmas magic. Yannick has worked for Martina...
Being Tamzin 3
When her parents’ actions parted her from her first love, Dequan, the girl who had once been Tamzin ran away. She couldn’t go home, but an elf man named Matty offered her a passport to a brand-new life in the fairy realm. Renamed as Thomasine, she learned new skills and met new friends and lovers, but she never forgot Dequan. Seven years on, she’s back in Sydney, ready to be Tamzin again and to take up the reins of the life she left behind. Before she can rekindle her relationship with Dequan, she needs a formal identity. Branok and Gillan St Ives help her out, and so do Dahlia Pengellis and the Dames with Dogs. All these people seem to wish her well in her quest of being Tamzin, but it’s her quest, after all. Tamzin finally tracks down Dequan, but the reunion does not go as planned. Bruised but unbeaten, Tamzin moves up the coast to Fiddle Bay, where she opens an art studio and reconnects with the indie music scene. Dahlia and her followers turn up, and after a highly peculiar evening, Tamzin meets an old acquaintance who might have some answers. Even if he hasn’t, he has something Tamzin wants.
