Trust

Description

I'm a lucky woman, thinks Susanna Greenfield. And why wouldn't she? Her handsome, successful husband is a loving father to their two teenage children. Her mother is her dearest friend, and her scatty but adored younger sister seems to have finally found some stability in her life. Susanna has a solid career as an art teacher, and if, as she has recently discovered, there's a hole inside her where her creative spirit used to be is that really such a big price to pay? But beneath the carefully maintained surface, seismic forces are at work. Fault lines are forming, not only in Susanna, but within each beloved member of her family. In a single, tragically ill-judged moment, the fabric it has taken a lifetime to construct can be torn apart.

Reviews

'Veitch ... excels at capturing the essence of familial relationships, and bringing their affectionate, tense, frustrated, loving, humorous and sometimes cataclysmic interactions vividly to life. ' ABR

'Trust is a novel on a panoramic scale, in some ways reminiscent of nineteenth-century traditions, full of characters and incidents, drama and tragedy. It is fast-paced for a narrative containing so much detail. Each main character is as satisfyingly well rounded as the 'curvy females' of the Greenfield clan… The dialogue is accurate and often funny.' Sydney Morning Herald

Author description

Kate Veitch is the author of the novel Listen.