The Deed by Susannah Begbie

From the 2022 Richell Prize winner comes a perceptive and unforgettable debut novel exploring the messy, sometimes volatile complications that only the best and worst of family can bring.  Sometimes greed can be good.

"People acted strangely when they started to think about family and money, at the same time.  They made unexpected decisions.  They left bundles ofsurprise for their children to fight over when they passed into rot and decay..."

Tom Edwards is dying, and cranky. He's made his peace with the dying part. But he'd bet his property - the whole ten thousand acres of it - that there'd be no wailing at his funeral. His kids wouldn't be able to chop down a tree, let alone build a coffin to bury him in.

Then Tom has an idea ...

Christine is furious, David ashen-faced, and Sophie distracted. Only Jenny listens carefully as Vince Barton, of Barton & Sons, reads their father's will. Either they build his coffin - in four days - or they lose their inheritance. All of it.

A perceptive and unforgettable debut novel, The Deed explores the messy, sometimes volatile, complications that only the best and worst of family can bring. Sometimes greed can be good.

The Deed

by Susannah Begbie

Hachette Australia

RRP: $32.99

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