Book description
Two people. How many lies?
Liese Campbell has an engagement for the weekend: Alexander
Colquhoun, a handsome, well-mannered farmer, is paying for her to stay
at his property in remote Australia. Liese, an English architect in
flight from the financial crisis, has been working at her uncle's
estate agency in Melbourne, where Alexander is looking for a place to
buy. The luxury apartments Liese shows him become sets for a
relationship that satisfies their fantasies - and helps pay her debts.
It's a game. Both players understand the rules. Or so she thinks.
Across the ancient landscape they drive at dusk to his grand
decaying mansion. Here Liese senses a change in Alexander, and
realises a new game has begun.
Chloe Hooper's riveting and provocative new novel is a psychological
thriller for the modern age, an exploration of the snares of money and
love and the dark side of erotic imagination. A trap has been set, but
how and why? And for whom?
Chloe Hooper was born in 1973. Her highly praised first novel,
A
Child's Book of True Crime
(2002), was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Her
Observer
article about the Doomadgee case, 'Island of Lost Souls', was
shortlisted for the Amnesty International Media Awards. Her last book,
The Tall Man
, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2009. In Australia, it won seven
major literary awards.
