Fiona Kelly McGregor

Marie King is fifty-nine, recently divorced, and has lived a rather conventional life on Sydney's affluent north shore. Now her three children have moved out, the family home is to be sold, and with it will go her beloved garden. On a drunken whim, Marie gets a tattoo — an act that gives way to an unexpected friendship with her...

Sydney, 1942: a city in wartime. As nightclubs are raided, the sly-grog trade thrives, and public toilets become the hunting grounds for corrupt police running an entrapment scheme. As journalists, lawyers, and establishment figures close in on this scandal, figures from the city's demi-monde must reckon with how to survive in dangerous times. The Trap brings to life a turbulent...