AustLit

'The Work is the debut novel of Bri Lee, an accomplished nonfiction writer and public intellectual. It’s set between Sydney and Manhattan, in a milieu where art matters but money rules. It offers up steamy sex and cold characters along with some great lines (“Life had clearly been generous to Sophie, but not kind”) and some absolute clunkers (“When some cunt’s passing offered to fast-track you a few rungs up the ladder of life, you didn’t look a dead gift horse in the mouth”). Relationships in The Work are highly transactional across a range of currencies – sex, prestige, actual money – and yet true love conquers all.' (Introduction)