After the Fall
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3.8 • 6 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
The story of a friendship between two couples - and an affair that blows their worlds apart.
Two married couples: Kate and Cary, Cressida and Luke. Four people who meet, click, and become firm friends. But then Kate and Luke discover a growing attraction, which becomes an obsession. They fall in love, then fall into an affair. It blows their worlds apart. After the fall, nothing will ever be the same again.
'A subtle, moving and perceptive story of love, loss and hope.' - Sydney Morning Herald
'A fascinating dissection of infidelity told from the point of view of two couples. Voyeuristic in its storytelling, After the Fall is a gripping insight into the anatomy of an affair, in the tradition of Anita Shreve, Josephine Hart and Anne Tyler.' - Maitland Mercury
'Ladd illustrates just what makes human interactions so difficult.' - Oz Baby Boomers
'An engrossing dissection of an illicit affair. The heady passion, the stolen moments, all the cliches are there but in Ladd's hands they are anything but trite as the reader is swept along by the intensity of the characters' emotions.' - Townsville Bulletin
'A dissection of deceit and the heady days of new love.' - Bayside Bulletin
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Neuropsychologist Ladd s flat debut is narrated by four Australians who make three pairs: Cary and Kate, and Luke and Cressida, two married couples and Kate and Luke, who fall headlong into an affair that could have big consequences. Cary is a chivalrous doctor who desperately wants children, while his impetuous wife, Kate, an anthropologist, is the lusty life of every party. Then there s Luke, the dashing ad man everyone falls in love with, and Cressida, his beautiful pediatrician wife, who is more dedicated to her patients than to her personal life. Short, snappy chapters alternate between the voices of these characters, building the story of the two marriages and the infidelity that dismantles them. Ladd can turn a phrase and spin a metaphor, but the characters are too thin to sustain sympathy, and little is done to find a new angle on the familiar setup of desire and adultery.
