Audrey Spencer grew up in a house that smelled of blood and Scotch, raised by a mother with a personality disorder and a father who punched holes in the walls when he missed somebody’s face.
At twenty-four, she is secure in the love of her partner Nick, and finally cutting the ties of messy dysfunction. She and her friends bask in their semi-adulthood, living a simple, contented life in inner-suburban Melbourne. They are young. They are having fun.

But the death of her childhood friend set ... more »

Audrey Spencer grew up in a house that smelled of blood and Scotch, raised by a mother with a personality disorder and a father who punched holes in the walls when he missed somebody’s face.
At twenty-four, she is secure in the love of her partner Nick, and finally cutting the ties of messy dysfunction. She and her friends bask in their semi-adulthood, living a simple, contented life in inner-suburban Melbourne. They are young. They are having fun.

But the death of her childhood friend sets in motion a sequence of events that threatens to unravel everything. Audrey is too busy looking after her grieving friends and brother to notice old shadows reappearing—and slowly, she and Nick are coming undone.

Would they ever recover?
What is the half-life of grief?

'This is Everything' is about progress, finding your feet and failing: a twenty-something novel for the twenty-first century.  Less