Eliza travels to Sydney to deal with the estate of her Aunt Dodge, and finds Maxine occupying Dodge's apartment. Soon enough, the young women's lives are consumed by absurd legal complications, as well as their own mounting boredom and squalor. Not to mention their trip across Sydney Harbour carrying an antique bookcase in a shopping trolley. Dodge Rose has been described as "the most astonishing debut novel of the decade". With its inventories, irreverence and virtuoso adaptation of colloquial speech, it freewheels its way through law, high finance and a plethora of national myths. The typographical representation of a piano being smashed to pieces with a golf club is just one of many strokes of genius. "The most exciting new fiction by a young Australian in years." Saturday Paper