Hovering

Winner of the prestigious Victorian Premier’s Award for an Unpublished Manuscript.

When artist Alice returns from Europe to southeastern Australia, she finds the family home and her sister Lydia largely unchanged, but little else so. Lydia’s son, George, a gifted computer programmer, is hearing voices and has taken a vow of silence. Strange things are happening in the city: people wake to displaced buildings and streets that rearrange themselves. The internet is alight with conspiracy theories. When Alice is implicated in an international art fraud, the family—and the city—begin to unravel.