The engagement
By: Chloe Hooper
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780224096348; 9780224096355; 9781446484692
Subjects: Man-woman relationships; Fiction
Description: Liese Campbell has an engagement for the weekend: to stay with Alexander Colquhoun, the well-mannered heir of a pastoral dynasty, at his property in Western Victoria. Liese, an English architect in flight from financial crisis, now works at her uncle's real-estate business in Melbourne. Alexander has been looking for a place in the city. The luxury apartments Liese shows him have become sets for a relationship that satisfies their fantasies and helps pay her debts. It's a game. Both players understand the rules, or so she thinks. Across the ancient landscape they drive at dusk to his grand decaying mansion. Here Liese senses a change to Alexander, and realises a different game has begun.