In 2020, I read and loved the novel Mayflies by Andrew O’Hagan. It made me laugh and cry with its take on love and friendship, life and death, which is to say: its universal themes.
While promoting my novel Poly, which was published recently in Australia, I’ve come out publicly as having an open marriage. There are reasons for that, of course. As with the premise of the novel, my wife and I decided years ago that we would see other people romantically while continuing to raise our children within our own loving and supportive relationship.
JESS was panting. When I got her into the creaking Holden Nova her contractions were three minutes apart; I knew because I’d been monitoring the hands of a broken watch on the burst-spring sofa.
