From the 2022 Richell Prize winner Susannah Begbie comes a perceptive and unforgettable debut novel exploring the messy, sometimes volatile complications that only the best and worst of family can bring.
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The Deed (Hatchette, $32.99, May 1) centres around Tom Edwards who is dying, and cranky.
He's made his peace with the dying part. But he'd bet his property - the whole 10,000 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.
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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.
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