
2011 Longlist
The Danger Game
ABOUT
THE BOOK
Alice and Louise are sisters united by a distant tragedy – the house fire which killed their brother fourteen years ago. Alice teaches dirt-poor students at a state high school the government wants to close, while she pursues a tumultuous relationship with a married man. Louise, a habitual liar and recovering heroin addict, has been playing ‘the danger game’ since she was a child, and can’t stop. But when Louise decides to unravel the truth about her twin brother’s death, and seeks out the mother who abandoned them, everything changes.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Country
Australia
Original Language
English
Publisher
Sleepers
Nominating Library