The Good Losers

The heartfelt and hilarious new novel from the bestselling author of The Angry Women's Choir.

Callie March is fascinated by human absurdity, including the habits of the upper class. So when she pushes her screen-addicted teenage son to join a local rowing club, she is thrilled to discover a whole new world of odd behaviours, irrational obsessions, and riverside rooting.

Thrust into a support crew and a very silly uniform, Callie has inadvertently volunteered for a season of pre-dawn parenting, endless fundraising, and pandering to insufferable dickheads. But she also finds friendship, intrigue, and lust, while her son might just find love.

Callie is torn between enchantment and repulsion, until a trail of corruption and scandal leads to deep suspicion. There's something fishy in the rowing shed, and Callie is determined to find out what lurks behind the closed doors of this sports club. In doing so, she will rock the boat—or better still, capsize it altogether.

This novel is set in northern Tasmania. It contains profundity, profanity, heartache, bum chafe, terrible winners, and very good losers.

'A wickedly entertaining romp that's hilarious and heart-breaking all at once.' — Amanda Hampson

'Spit-out-your-tea, wet-your-pants funny!' — Tess Woods

'Sharply observed social satire with a slice of whodunit. Set aside a weekend because you'll want to read it in one go.' — Maggie Mackellar

'Funny, incisive, clever, but sadly a marriage wrecker... my husband moved out to sleep in another room while I was reading The Good Losers, because my snorting was keeping him awake.' — Kylie Ladd