To celebrate the release of this novel, Allegra in Three Parts, we want you to read the first chapter for free! You can find it below or download a pdf version here. Once you’re done, we’d love to know what you think. Find us on social media and let us know!
Update: Allegra in Three Parts has won the Indie Book Debut Fiction Award.
About Allegra in Three Parts
Eleven-year-old Allegra shuttles between her grandmothers who live next door to one another but couldn’t be more different. Matilde works all hours and instils discipline, duty and restraint. She insists that Allegra focus on her studies to become a doctor.
Meanwhile free-spirited Joy is full of colour, possibility and emotion, storing all her tears in little glass bottles. She is riding the second wave of the women’s movement in the company of her penny tortoise, Simone de Beauvoir, encouraging Ally to explore broad horizons and live her ‘true essence’.
About Suzanne Daniel
Suzanne Daniel is a journalist and communications consultant who has also worked for ABC TV, the Sydney Morning Herald, the United Nations, BBC (London) and in crisis management and social services. For the past twenty years she has served on community, philanthropic and public company boards.