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Marie King is fifty-nine, recently divorced, and has lived a rather conventional life on Sydney's affluent north shore. Now her three children have moved out, the family home is to be sold, and with it will go her beloved garden. Marie King is fifty-nine, recently divorced, and has lived a rather conventional life on Sydney's affluent north shore. Now her three children have moved out, the family home is to be sold, and with it will go her beloved garden. On a drunken whim, Marie gets a tattoo - an act that gives way to an unexpected friendship with her tattoo artist, Rhys. Before long, Rhys has introduced Marie to a side of the city that clashes with her staid north-shore milieu. Her children are mortified by their mother's transformation, but have their own challenges to deal with- workplace politics; love affairs old and new; and, of course, the real-estate market. Written with Fiona McGregor's incisive wit and keen eye, Indelible Ink uses one family as a microcosm for the changes operating in society at large. In its piercing examination of the way we live now, it is truly a novel for our times. 'The richest and most complete evocation of Sydney since Patrick White's The Vivisector.' The Monthly 'Fiona McGregor, through her unusual and compelling use of language, transforms this family's story into something epic.' The Sydney Morning Herald

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Readers searching for that rare thing, a contemporary Australian satire, will find it here. Jennifer Byrne, Australian Women's Weekly

This utterly original, strangely charismatic novel boasts complex, compelling characters, incisive wit, and striking observations about the way we live now. -- Age Fiona McGregor presents a refreshing view of life in Australia--specifically Sydney--that celebrates the doubts, challenges, and ordinary activities and emotions of everyday life. -- Bookseller+Publisher There is a gutsiness, a splendor and command of language and expression in [Fiona McGregor's] writing that thrills me every time I read her. Indelible Ink is a stunning book, a novel that addresses our world and our time with an acute and ferocious acumen . . . . This is a superb book by-- undeniably now--one of our finest writers. --Christos Tsiolkas, author, The Slap The best domestic novels use characters in a specific family or social setting to reflect and explore the values and issues of a particular time and place. Indelible Ink, which follows the intersecting lives of one Sydney family during the last days of the Howard era, is such a book and looks set to be the most talked-about Australian novel since The Slap. ' Australian Book Review Readers searching for that rare thing, a contemporary Australian satire, will find it here. Jennifer Byrne, Australian Women's Weekly Readers searching for that rare thing, a contemporary Australian satire, will find it here. --Jennifer Byrne, Australian Women's Weekly The best domestic novels use characters in a specific family or social setting to reflect and explore the values and issues of a particular time and place. Indelible Ink, which follows the intersecting lives of one Sydney family during the last days of the Howard era, is such a book -- and looks set to be the most talked-about Australian novel since The Slap.' --Australian Book Review Set to be the most talked-about Australian novel since Christos Tsiolkas's The Slap, McGregor's domestic saga offers a cutting take on the larger cultural and political forces at play during the Howard era ... McGregor proves her talent with this wildly contemporary, fast-paced novel, turning the story of one woman's personal transformation into a savage critique of our times. --AEU News

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