The Dinner Party

Margo Guthrie just wants to stay in bed and escape the heat, but she has a dinner to plan. 

There are so many things she wants to say to her three grown children. But Anna is fragile, and Julian and Craig can barely stand the sight of each other.

How did they get here?

And how can Margo bring her family back together, one more time?

The Dinner Party is the story of a modern Australian family on the brink of revelations that will test the bonds that tie them. Ultimately, it is a story of how we care for those we love, when they are at their most vulnerable.

‘The Dinner Party is a beautifully crafted tale of complex family dynamics in contemporary Sydney. This novel explores what makes a good life and a good death, and gently weaves in philosophical contemplations about the elusiveness of happiness and the way that mortality looms above us all.’
CERIDWEN DOVEY, author of ONLY THE ASTRONAUTS

‘The Dinner Party is an absorbing and thoughtful novel that held my interest throughout. The world of the Guthries, with defiant Margo at the helm, is a convincing portrait of a contemporary Australian family, with the usual undercurrents of sibling rivalry, micro-resentments and deep-rooted tensions.’
NADINE DAVIDOFF, Editor