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OTHER THAN MOTHER

Front cover of the book 'Other Than Mother' by Marley Betts. Yellow and pink background with a colourful cartoon family. The mother is grey and crouched in a ball.

"That’s why I got a job. To try to get away and be a person outside of the home. Something other than a mother."

Meet Becky Tenneree, a burned-out mother of four who needs to get some time away from the suffocating and soul-destroying task of parenthood.

Deciding to accept a job opportunity was meant to be a good thing. It was meant to give Becky time away from her volatile eldest daughter, and days where she does more than break up fights and wipe pooey bums. Instead, Becky finds herself losing her marriage and her identity (although not her children).

As things go from bad to worse, Becky has to rediscover who she is and exactly what she wants from life... before she ends up with nothing.

Cover of book The Perfect Gift. The words are written in colourful watercolours beside a bunch of flowers and yellow balloon

The perfect gift

A DIY personalised all-occasion gift book for adults

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The Perfect Gift: a DIY personalised all-occasion gift book for adults is a fun, lighthearted, and imaginative gift suitable for any kind of event - from a birthday, Mother's Day, or Valentine's Day, through to an apology, a divorce gift, or just because. Described as "A card on steroids", The Perfect Gift is a quick, easy, and enjoyable experience for the giver, which produces a delightful and entertaining gift for someone special to treasure forever.​

The earth legacy series

Cover of book 'The Silver Sheep'. Woman in a grass dress is standing thoughtfully in front of grassy plains under grey sky
Cover of the book 'The Silver Maid'. Woman with curly orange windswept hair in a grass jacket in front of grassy plains

Book 1: The Silver Sheep

Would you choose to keep your family safe or change the world?

In a society led to believe that it is dangerous for bare feet to touch the ground, Cleo is used to living disconnected; Disconnected from the Earth, her alcoholic mother, her absent father, and her crazy grandfather. So, when Cleo discovers that she is pregnant at sixteen, she goes searching for a connection.


Ignoring her mother’s warnings, Cleo hunts down her wealthy, estranged grandmother and uncovers the truth behind her family’s disunity and dysfunction. When she finds herself caught in a web of secrets and lies, Cleo must decide whether to keep her family’s secrets and keep them safe, or whether to betray them, expose the lies, and change the world.

Novella: The Silver Maid

You can take the girl out of the town... but can you put her back again?

 

Wanting to break free from the small-town small-mindedness of her past, Fern chooses to take a job as a live-in nanny, housekeeper, and tutor, in the city mansion of the wealthy Silverson family. When she finds out that her mother, Maria, has had a stroke, Fern travels back to her childhood hometown of Orbeda, a 5-hour drive with her brother towards 2,500 people that she left behind for a reason.

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As soon as Fern arrives in Orbeda, she has to defend herself against her own family, who do not take her, or her job, seriously at all. With old family tensions flaring and her self-worth floundering, in a town where everyone knows everyone, Fern has no choice but to face her past. Then, when Maria's health takes a turn for the worse, Fern finds herself doing the very thing that she was trying to avoid, and what she ran away from in the first place.

Cover of book 'The Silver Shepherd'. Woman in a grass dress is laying on a grassy hill under grey sky

Book 2: The Silver Shepherd
Sheep attack shepherds when wolves tell lies

Cleo is a young Australian mother who lives an alternative lifestyle in one of the last remaining hippie communities. She is used to suffering for her choices; Walking around shoeless in a society that considers it dangerous and deplorable is either really brave, or really stupid... but that is the least of her concerns.

Cleo has inherited a secret from her family’s twisted past. A secret that some very powerful people are making sure stays kept, by any means necessary.

A secret that could change the world.

Before Cleo bec
ame a mother, she was a fighter and a rebel. But now she stays silent, reluctant to put her child at risk and carrying a heavy burden. However, when a suspicious tragedy strikes her family, Cleo realises that even if she keeps their secret, she is never going to be safe, and her child will never grow up free. No one will.

Something needs to be done, and it needs to be done by her.

* TRIGGER WARNING: Please be aware that some of Marley's books deal with themes that some readers may find distressing e.g. death, miscarriage, substance abuse, and emotional abuse. Please do not hesitate to contact Marley if you have any questions: marley@marleybetts.com 

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