The Marriage Trap: The new 2026 story of rebellion and freedom from the bestselling author of The Radio...

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Victoria Purman

The Marriage Trap

Name: The Marriage Trap
Price: 32.99 AUD
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ISBN: 9781867290636

The new 2026 story of rebellion and freedom from the bestselling author of The Radio Hour. For...

Victoria Purman

$32.99

Paperback

Forthcoming
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English

HQ Fiction
28 April 2026

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

From the bestselling author of The Radio Hour comes this charming but pointed look at the tumultuous extraordinary decade of the 1960s, and the effects of the pill, rebellion and new ideas on ordinary Australian women as alongside shorter skirts and the Beatles, they embrace freedom...

1960s Adelaide: The Langley family - Olive, Len and their two daughters, twenty-year-old Cathy and ten-year-old Evelyn - live a peaceful suburban life, although Grandma Langley turns up each Sunday lunch like a bad fairy to castigate them for their dubious morals.

Cathy, training to be a teacher, thinks women have it tough. No sex until marriage, then no work, child after child and the sacrifice of their desires to church, husband and family. Cathy is determined not to marry right away. Once married, it's all over. A life no longer her own. Young Evelyn wants to be a fairy princess ... until she sees for herself the price women pay for such dreams.

When the new contraceptive pill arrives women can suddenly sense freedom. But powerful forces are aligned against women's reproductive choice and a fight begins. A fight that takes on their own doctors, the might of the Catholic church, and the outdated morality of previous generations.

By: Victoria Purman
Imprint: HQ Fiction
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 462g
ISBN: 9781867290636
ISBN 10: 1867290634
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 28 April 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Victoria Purman is an Australian top ten and USA Today bestselling fiction author. Her last book The Radio Hour was an Australian bestseller, as were her previous novels. Her earlier novel The Three Miss Allens was a USA Today bestseller. She is a regular guest at writers festivals, a mentor and workshop presenter and has been a judge in the fiction category for the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature and the 2022 ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize. To find out more, visit Victoria's website, victoriapurman.com.You can also follow her on Facebook or Instagram (@victoriapurmanauthor).