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Philippa Kaye

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New Release

Girl Detectives Just Wanna Have Fun 

It’s 1984, hairstyles are big,

skirts are short and

Birdie Mealing is just a girl

who wants to have fun

… until her uncle goes missing that is.

Turned amateur sleuth,

Birdie is determined to find him.

Or order at

This story goes on one hell of a ride.

With a sharp lovable heroine, a strong buddy angle, snappy dialogue, 

plus a romantic angle I was shipping for.

This book was easy to lose myself in and a lot of fun.

Kelly Rigby

Author and Editor

Me, me, me, me, me

Having grown up in Sydney, Philippa (aka Pip) now lives on the Central Coast with her lovely husband and three – often lovely – children.

Pip has had many a job over the years: a checkout-chick at Best and Less, a Pizza Hut 'waitress' (girls weren't allowed to actually make the pizzas in the 80s - not that that stopped her!), a Playbill girl (Programs! Get your programs!) and a funeral singer, just to name a few.

In the real world, she's an educator. She currently teaches secondary English and lectures at the University of Newcastle.

Her Great Aunty was an Olympian, her dad invented Pavlova Magic and in her spare time she paints pictures on the wall.

She loves partaking in a good cocktail, dreaming of distant places and to set her fingers happily tapping along the keyboard with her writing friends, see below.

Girl Detectives Just Wanna Have Fun is Pip’s first novel.

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I am writing...

Write Squad with Jodi Gibbons author of The Five Year Plan

Write Along with Lisa with Lisa Ireland author of The One and Only Dolly Jamieson

Turn up the Tension with Pamela Cook author of All We Dream

Oh boy, this book was so much fun!

A well-paced, engaging mystery that's packed full of romance and humour.

Girl Detectives Just Wanna Have Fun is amongst one of my

favourites books of the year!

Jessica bookstagrammer

@biblioblis.au

Scribblings

The music, the movies, the fashion, the food! 

Molly Meldrum on Countdown,

Cleo and Dolly magazine... So Good!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Mandy White 

Goodreads

That's entertainment!

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Talking Aussie Books

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Date with Debut

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Part mystery, part romance. This is a much nuanaced novel.

Dig a little deeper and Philippa brings underlying themes

under the spotlight that I respected. 

Helen

@gretareadsandtealeaves

TikTok

Romance is Our Safe Word Podcast

Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 1

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Birdie is such a clever amateur detective and I'm hoping that we may see her in future books.

Brooke

Bookstagrammer @bmichie31

Let's Chat!

Thanks for submitting!

I would like to acknowledge the Darkinjung people on whose land I work and play.

Always was. Always will be.

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