THE DANGER GAME - Softcover

Vivid, page-turning and passionate - the characters leap off the page * Catherine O'Flynn * Masterful, poignant, powerful and true. Ashton's is a remarkable voice and this is a wonderful novel * Christos Tsiolkas * Ashton's vivid, page-turning prose, married to passionate hopefulness, gives this debut a redemptive glow * Marie Claire * Her characters are sharply drawn and vividly alive; her depiction of domestic poverty and urban blight, clear-sighted . . . It left me uplifted -- Stephanie Cross * Daily Mail *

Alice and Louise are sisters united by a distant tragedy - the house fire fourteen years ago which their brother lit and burned to death in. Alice teaches dirt-poor students at a state high school that the government wants to close, while pursuing a relationship with a married man. Louise, a habitual liar and recovering heroin addict, has been playing a game of dares - 'the danger game' - with herself since she was a child, and she now can't stop. When they reunite in Melbourne to unravel the truth about their twin brother's death, and seek out the mother who abandoned them as children, they're forced to face the danger of their family's past.