ARGONAUT BOOKS

Athena and Dexter live a happy but insular life, bound by routine and the care of their young sons. When Elizabeth, an old friend from Dexter's university days, turns up with her much younger sister, Vicki, and her lover, Philip, she brings an enticing world into their doorstep. And Athena finds herself straining at the confines of her life. Reviews [A] spare, subtle, technically sophisticated novella about a cluster of family and friends in suburban Melbourne... Garner, one of Australia's most admired writers, is a master anatomist of ordinary lives across fiction and n...Read More