The Fatal Dance

Out Now with HarperCollins

Redmond Campbell’s luck has taken a turn. His dog’s dead, his wife in prison, and he has to look after his sister-in-law – a wildly disinhibited woman with Huntington’s disease – who hates him. Even Redmond’s nephew, a PhD student searching for a cure to the disease that’s killing his mother, doesn’t give Red the respect he deserves. But he’s about to change all that. Red’s got plans to become Sydney’s leading property agent, and he’s about to make a connection that will line him up a killing. It’s legal too… almost. What matters is that Red has a whiff of success, and he’s damn sure everything’s about to come up roses. 

Funny and moving, profound and profane, both an intimate family drama and an incisive parable of capitalism and collapse, this is an anarchic, joy-filled and ribald read. A novel about the dance of the body through life, it is a story brimming with sting, hope, and gratitude for a world that is equal parts cruel and kind.