Join twelve friends, their relationships, their fears, their idiosyncrasies and their dreams as we peek into their lives. Set in contemporary Melbourne, they come from varied paths and cultural backgrounds, reflecting the cosmopolitan diversity of today's cosmopolitan Australia. Most of them in their forty's, they share their day to day experiences, hopes, emotions, frustrations and life's gifts around a big dining table that can accommodate all twelve of them. A disparate group of individuals experiencing what is one of the most crucial decades, if not the most, in the journey called life.

In the end, 40 Something is a very special book drawing a portrait of a peculiar bunch become a rather close family of their own choosing. Ah, if we could only pick our relatives!

About the Author

Pasquale M Palmieri was born in Roma, Italia, where he lived for his first 21 years, before travelling to Canada and the United States, where he finished his studies in architecture. He know lives in Melbourne, Australia and is the author of several novels, an award-winning play and a non-fiction about marriage, divorce and for-ever-signed children.