The Confidence Woman

Sophie Quick

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Allen & Unwin
01 April 2025

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Australian Fiction

'The wicked Australian lovechild of Sally Rooney and Aubrey Plaza.' Chris Flynn, author of Mammoth

I was active and agile. I was a champion. I was a witch. I was a winner.

Christina is a single mother living in the Melbourne suburbs, but to her online clients she is the esteemed Dr Ruth Carlisle, an 'executive coach and mindset expert, specialising in high-performing individuals'.

Dr Ruth gains her clients' trust through her coaching business, discovering their secrets and deepest fears. Through this elaborate scam, she's saving money for the ultimate unobtainable Australian dream: a home deposit. But when she blunders, and her worlds begin to collide, suddenly everything is at stake.

The Confidence Woman is a novel about more than one kind of confidence game. It explores and hilariously skewers contemporary cults of self-optimisation, while also creating a moving and too-real portrait of what it's like to strive for success (or just security) in a rigged system.

By: Sophie Quick
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm,
Weight: 440g
ISBN: 9781761470844
ISBN 10: 1761470841
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 01 April 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sophie Quick is a writer/editor living in Melbourne. She works across editorial, communications and copywriting - mostly for print media, arts organisations and non-profits. She's had inhouse roles at The Big Issue and the Wheeler Centre and her freelance writing has appeared in The Saturday Paper, Meanjin and The Weekend Australian Review. Sophie has written literary criticism, news features, advice columns, horoscopes, chat scripts, speeches and more. The Confidence Woman is her first novel.