Charades

1988

This stunning and intoxicating novel speaks of passion and obsession, ranging in setting from an Australian rainforest to Boston and Toronto. A mysterious and elusive love affair haunts the lives of three women in Australia. Twenty years later, on the other side of the world, Charade Ryan sorts through story and counter-story for her father, the legendary Nicholas, and the truth about her origins.

Hospital's language is juicy with sensuous details, seething with dense metaphors, cross-reference and word play. This is maximalist writing, impressively intelligent and witty... Her prose crackles with energy and imaginative excitement...
— New York Times Book Review

FURTHER REVIEWS

AMAZON: FRANCE | US |
AUSTRALIA: Purchase from the University of Queensland Bookshop

Charades is under film option to Pacific Motion Pictures (Vancouver and Los Angeles), with Canadian Tara Twigg as producer; she is putting together a joint Australian/US/Canadian production.

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