Toni Jordan
Best-selling author
New Release
Prettier if She
Smiled More
One perfect life. One disastrous week.
As the eldest child in a single-parent family, Kylie's always had more important things on her mind than smiling for random strangers. Controlling her job, her home, her romantic life and - most importantly - her family takes all her concentration. She's always succeeded, though, because that's just who Kylie is.
When her fiercely independent mother breaks an ankle and needs help, it's up to Kylie, as usual, to fix things. She reluctantly packs her bags and moves in, but back in her childhood home, things start to unravel. Could it be that Kylie's carefully curated life is not so perfect after all?
Prettier if She Smiled More will make you laugh and make you cry. Is it too late to start over?
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'Taps into the humour and pathos of ordinary life in a way that has you nodding with recognition . . . while at the same time laughing out loud'
Pip Williams
Praise & Reviews
'I just loved this very smart, very funny and at times moving novel'
Sophie Cunningham
'A contemporary comic masterpiece. Practically every page boasts lines redolent of humour, wit and sarcasm that will make you snigger if not laugh out loud'
ArtsHub
About Toni
Toni Jordan has worked as a molecular biologist, quality control chemist, TAB operator and door-to-door aluminium siding salesperson, and is the author of seven novels. Her debut, the international best-seller Addition, was longlisted for the Miles Franklin award, was a Richard and Judy bookclub pick and won the Indie Award for best first book. Fall Girl was published internationally and Nine Days was awarded Best Fiction at the 2012 Indie Awards and was named in Kirkus Review’s top 10 Historical Novels of 2013. Our Tiny, Useless Hearts was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award and for the Voss Literary Award. Toni has been published widely in newspapers and magazines. She holds a bachelor of science in physiology and a PhD in creative arts. Her most recent novel is the family comedy Prettier if she Smiled More (2023). Toni lives in Melbourne.
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