All Fall Down

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When a bridge collapses in a small outback town, the reverberations are felt through six lives in particular. Shane pulls from the wreckage a wooden effigy he placed on the bridge for a laugh. Will comes from Melbourne to oversee his company's second attempt at the project, bringing his daughter Rachel, a gawky, confused teenager. They move in next to Janice, a new mother going through a rough time. Gussy and Father Nott - the gossip and the priest - are locals to the harsh, hot, red town of Mululuk. But it's the mysterious Charlie - a scruffy, charismatic alcoholic, trailing into town through the dust - who may hold a terrifying, secret solution to the failures of mathematics and engineering.When a bridge collapses in a small outback town, the reverberations are felt through six lives in particular. Shane pulls from the wreckage a wooden effigy he placed on the bridge for a laugh. Will comes from Melbourne to oversee his company's second attempt at the project, bringing his daughter Rachel, a gawky, confused teenager. They move in next to Janice, a new mother going through a rough time. Gussy and Father Nott - the gossip and the priest - are locals to the harsh, hot, red town of Mululuk. But it's the mysterious Charlie - a scruffy, charismatic alcoholic, trailing into town through the dust - who may hold a terrifying, secret solution to the failures of mathematics and engineering.
Born in 1969, Cassandra Austin grew up in outback NSW but completed her formal education at Melbourne University with an MA in Criminology. She has been working in documentary film-making in London, Los Angeles and Melbourne. She also studied creative writing at UCLA. Austin has previously written one novella, Seeing George, published by Random House in 2004. She currently lives in LA with her husband and children, but returns to Australia regularly.