The Good Losers

The heartfelt and hilarious new novel from the bestselling author of The Angry Women’s Choir.
‘Rowing! Isn’t that the number one sport for rich knobs?’
Callie March is fascinated by human absurdity, including the habits of the upper class. So when she bribes 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 a whole lot of pandering to insufferable dickheads. But she also finds friendship, intrigue, lust and Harry Styles, while her son finds his first (illuminating) love.
Callie is torn between enchantment and repulsion, until a trail of corruption and scandal leads to deep suspicion, and a determination to uncover the dangerous truth behind the closed doors of this unimaginably unconventional sports club.
There’s something fishy in the rowing shed, and Callie is determined to rock the boat, or better still, capsize it entirely.
This novel is set in northern Tasmania. It contains profundity, profanity, complete tossers and magnificent losers.