This gripping, provocative novel by one of Australia's finest writers is a psychological thriller for the modern age, one which explores the snares of money and love, and the dark side of erotic imagination. Here Liese senses a change in Alexander, and realises a different game has begun. Across the ancient landscape they drive at dusk to his grand decaying mansion. The luxury apartments Liese shows him have become sets for a relationship that satisfies their fantasies – and helps pay her debts. Alexander has been looking for a place in the city. Liese, an English architect in flight from the financial crisis, now works at her uncle's real-estate business in Melbourne. Liese Campbell has an engagement for the weekend: to stay with Alexander Colquhoun, the well-mannered heir of a pastoral dynasty, at his property in western Victoria. The Engagement is a taut psychological thriller in which the deft blurring of reality and dark fantasy rivals that of Luis Bunuel's classic Belle de Jour. From Chloe Hooper, author of the phenomenal The Tall Man, comes a brilliant novel about sex and money.
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