Goodbye Sweetheart

A successful lawyer, bon vivant, loving husband, and father has a heart attack and dies while swimming in the local pool. A man apparently happily married, yet with two divorces behind him and three puzzled children. In death it seems that he is not the man everyone thought. As his extended family gathers to mourn, secrets and lies unfold uncomfortably around them. Those pornographic images on his laptop? An unexpected lover? Somewhere in the turmoil of mourning each of them has to find an answer to the question—who was this man really?

Marion Halligan has been short-listed for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and her books include Valley of Grace and Shooting the Fox.