Shortlisted for the Melbourne Prize for Literature, Best Writing Award 2012 and the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction, 2011.
Colin dreams of escaping his parents’ farm for a grand stage career. He makes it to London and a disastrous audition before meeting Tilda. Tilda is beautiful, older, an artist and she brings his future with her. A heady romance leads to a small town in country Victoria and a new home in a decaying former bank. They are building a life together, but there are cracks in the foundation.
This is a love story, told from passionate beginning to spectacular end. It is intimate and honest, blackly funny and emotionally devastating.