Chosen Family

Chosen FamilyAn exuberant and irreverently funny novel about one gorgeously messy friendship feud unrequited love affair set in Sydney across eighteen years. Nell Argall and Eve Bowman are both brilliant, odd, and friendless. When they meet on the brutal battlefield that is their posh all girls high school during their first year there, both their lives are changed forever. From school, to university, to careers, Nell and Eves relationship is a life raft that is

in the same place―Cady doesn't believe in coincidences

and philosophical account of Gil’s unexpected devotion to the family

As the deadly game plays out

"A harrowing tale of the perils of high-altitude climbing

And what secrets is their father hiding from them

While researching late in the library during a party

Annabel was executed

where the boundary between wonder and terror is thinner than a breath

decadent skewering of upper middle-class motherhood” (Sarah Bonner

and the women who love them

Ada clawed her way up from her rock bottom

and unresolved conflicts