The Confidence Woman

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.