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1. What are the key themes in this novel? Did any resonate with you?
2. What did you think about the post-divorce relationship between Di and Alan? Could you live across the garden from an ex-partner?
3. How did you feel about the relationship between Di and her daughters?
4. What do you think of the way that Di dealt with her post-divorce relationships relative to her daughters? Should she have been more open with them? Less so?
5. Do you think Di dealt with the homophobia at Kate’s school in the correct way? What should she have done?
6. What did you think of Andile’s experience of Cape Town?
7. What do you think of the way that Di dealt with her own sexuality in relation to her daughters? What do you think she should have done?
8. What is your view on the question of sleepovers that Di grapples with in chapter 18?
9. If you’ve read all the books in the series (Yay! Thank you J) What did you think of the way the friendships have evolved from Being Kari to Being Dianne?
10. What did you think of the way that the novel ended? How would you have liked it to end.

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