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'Sydney. 2008. Pre-GFC.
'Forced into an early retirement due to illness, Sam Rosen has lost any semblance of control over his life. His wife, Rhonda, confined to the carer role, is feeling her identity ebb slowly away as her former life retreats further and further into the past.
'Their eldest son Mark is over-invested and as he lurches towards financial disaster, he can't bring himself to tell his wife Ingrid that they're losing money fast.
'Middle child Liza has always been independent and content to scrape through on her child-care worker's wage in one of the most expensive property markets in the world. But when her biological clock goes off, she's out of time in a city where men are thin on the ground and grown-up ones even scarcer.
'Baby of the family Jemma thinks that being mild-mannered will let her pass through life unharmed. And then, one night, everything changes.
'Fast and funny, Hopscotch charts a year in the lives of the endearingly flawed Rosen family, and holds up a mirror to contemporary urban life in Australia, interrogating our endless capacity for self-destruction, longing and love, and asks why we think we could ever find happiness in a city that's roaring with dysfunction.'
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Review : Hopscotch
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Good Reading , July 2015; (p. 40)
— Review of Hopscotch 2015 single work novel -
Well Read
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 30 May 2015; (p. 32)
— Review of The Life of Houses 2015 single work novel ; Hopscotch 2015 single work novel -
Book Review: Hopscotch by Jane Messer
2015
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The NSW Writers' Centre Blog
— Review of Hopscotch 2015 single work novel -
How to Handle the Global Financial Crisis – And Win
Messer Tackles the GFC - and Wins
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 2-3 May 2015; (p. 25) The Canberra Times , 2 May 2015; (p. 14) The Age , 2-3 May 2015; (p. 25)
— Review of Hopscotch 2015 single work novel
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How to Handle the Global Financial Crisis – And Win
Messer Tackles the GFC - and Wins
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 2-3 May 2015; (p. 25) The Canberra Times , 2 May 2015; (p. 14) The Age , 2-3 May 2015; (p. 25)
— Review of Hopscotch 2015 single work novel -
Book Review: Hopscotch by Jane Messer
2015
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The NSW Writers' Centre Blog
— Review of Hopscotch 2015 single work novel -
Well Read
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 30 May 2015; (p. 32)
— Review of The Life of Houses 2015 single work novel ; Hopscotch 2015 single work novel -
Review : Hopscotch
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Good Reading , July 2015; (p. 40)
— Review of Hopscotch 2015 single work novel