Overview
With their father, there’s always a catch…
Colt Jenson and his younger brother, Bastian, have moved to a new, working-class suburb. The Jensons are different. Their father, Rex, showers them with gifts—toys, bikes, all that glitters most—and makes them the envy of the neighborhood.
To Freya Kiley and the other local kids, the Jensons are a family out of a movie, and Rex a hero—successful, attentive, attractive, always there to lend a hand. But to Colt he’s an impossible figure in a different way: unbearable, suffocating. Has Colt got Rex wrong, or has he seen something in his father that will destroy their fragile new lives?
This brilliant and unflinching novel shows internationally acclaimed author Sonya Hartnett at her most intriguing and psychologically complex.
Colt Jenson and his younger brother, Bastian, have moved to a new, working-class suburb. The Jensons are different. Their father, Rex, showers them with gifts—toys, bikes, all that glitters most—and makes them the envy of the neighborhood.
To Freya Kiley and the other local kids, the Jensons are a family out of a movie, and Rex a hero—successful, attentive, attractive, always there to lend a hand. But to Colt he’s an impossible figure in a different way: unbearable, suffocating. Has Colt got Rex wrong, or has he seen something in his father that will destroy their fragile new lives?
This brilliant and unflinching novel shows internationally acclaimed author Sonya Hartnett at her most intriguing and psychologically complex.