A Winning Betrayal by Louise GuyMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Three and a half stars.
Two very different women share the lotto jackpot AUD 10 million each.
Frankie and her husband Tom are hard-working and decent, but broke. They can't afford to pay their utility bill and they buy clothes for their two daughters at charity shops. But Frankie sees the win as more of a curse than a blessing and doesn't want to keep the money.
Shauna is a single career woman, she has no trouble accepting her win but will it bring her closer to her mother who can be difficult? Then when a magazine article makes it clear she has won the lotto people from her past start re-appearing, can she trust them or are they only after her money?
The two women meet at the lottery headquarters and bond at the weekly meetings for previous winners where people who have had similar luck share their good (and bad) experiences.
I enjoyed this but it was a bit predictable, also several of the characters are either too good or too bad to feel real, more like caricatures with no light and shade to make them interesting.
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