NEW RELEASE
Manhattan Dreaming - Anita Heiss (2010)
Lauren, a curator at the National Aboriginal Gallery in Canberra, is offered a fellowship to New York. Lauren is one of those women who's very capable on the job front but not so smart where men are concerned. She finds that the men of NY know how to appreciate women, unlike her so-called boyfriend back home, Adam, a Canberra rugby league player who is well-known for his off-field antics. But even as she begins relishing life in the city that never sleeps - from her lovely colleague Wyatt, her Koori flatmate Kirsten and the Australian pub where the drink du jour is the Ozmo - she continues to check up on Adam through his MySpace page. With the classic romantic ending up the Empire State Building (you just know it was coming), this may well get you appreciating indigenous art and dreaming of life in the Big Apple. Best line: "The flag should be flown on flagpoles, not bogans."
Anita Heiss is set to take a bite out of the Big Apple with her latest book Manhattan Dreaming. Lauren is a curator at the National Aboriginal Gallery in Canberra. She's passionate about the arts and takes her work seriously. That is, when she's not daydreaming about Adam, the halfback for the Canberra Cockatoos. To everyone other than Lauren, it is clear that Adam doesn't want to be in a relationship at all. When Adam is involved in one too many media scandals, Lauren wins her dream job at the Smithsonian in New York. Maybe Adam will miss her so much that he will see the light and realise how much he wants to be with her. Manhattan Dreaming is out in March.