On Tour 11/09/23-12/04/23 “Weekend Friends” by Bella Ellwood-Clayton

Release Date: November 7, 2023

About The Book:

For girls, middle school is practically the Hunger Games—for their mothers, it can be worse.

In this gripping novel, a widowed mom with a secret relocates to Florida for a fresh start. She makes friends—and forms a “weekends only” romance—but when her tween daughter joins the popular group, only to be controlled and bullied, both mother and daughter find themselves on the wrong side of their gated community with devastating repercussions.

About The Author:

Dr. Bella Ellwood-Clayton is an award-winning author. She has a BA from Concordia University in Montréal and a Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne in sexual anthropology—and, yes, that makes for interesting dinner party conversations. Her gripping debut novel, WEEKEND FRIENDS, is coming out November 7, 2023 (Post Hill Press/Simon & Schuster). The audio book will be released in the beginning of 2024. Her nonfiction book, Sex Drive: In Pursuit of Female Desire, was published by Allen & Unwin in 2012. Bella has published short stories, poetry, and written for publications such as Huffington Post and Daily Life. She frequently appears on TV and gives talks, including a TEDx talk, about relationships. Her work has been featured in a National Geographic documentary.

Married to a real-life superhero, she lives in Melbourne and has two spirited—eek—tweens and a mini Maltese who truly believes he’s a pit bull. When she’s not glued to her laptop, you can find her downward dogging, pleading with her children to go outside, randomly blurting out, “Oh, that’s a good story idea,” and consuming too many vegetarian dumplings.

https://www.drbella.com.au/

Social Media:

Instagram: https://instagram.com/drbellaeditor

Twitter: @BEllwoodClayton

Book Blurbs:

Unflinching in its portrayal of modern-day parenting, Weekend Friends is a chilling debut that is as confronting as it is compelling. Unputdownable.—Nicola Moriarty, international bestselling author of novels including The Fifth Letter, Those Other Women and You Need to Know.

Ellwood-Clayton explores the uneasy path of modern parenting, adolescent angst, and the vast consequences of seemingly small choices, where a parent’s best intentions are fraught with danger—and potentially deadly consequences. Weekend Friends is a deeply emotional tale that will make you laugh, cry, gasp, and ultimately leave you haunted with questions that have no easy answers.—Annette Lyon, USA Today bestselling author of Just One More

A razor-sharp read about the social pressures mothers and daughters face in their respective cliques and how those worlds can collide when more than one person has a secret. —Georgina Cross, bestselling author, Nanny Needed, The Stepdaughter, One Night

Dark, enticing, and an incredibly poignant delve into modern motherhood.

—L.C. North, author of The Ugly Truth.

Bloggers On Tour:

Nov. 9th- Thrillers and Coffee https://instagram.com/thrillersandcoffee

Nov. 12th- Books And Beabulls https://instagram.com/books_and_beabulls

Nov. 18th-Plains Reading https://instagram.com/plains_reading

Nov. 20th- Sarahs Bookish Reviews https://instagram.com/sarahs.bookish.reviews

Nov. 20th- Reading Late Into The Night https://instagram.com/reading.late.into.the.night

Nov. 22nd- Shooks Books https://instagram.com/shook_sbooks

Nov. 22nd- Rozier Reads and Wine https://instagram.com/rozierreadsandwine

Nov. 27th- Nurse Bookie https://instagram.com/nurse_bookie

Nov. 29th- CMT Loves Wine and Books https://instagram.com/cmtloveswineandbooks