A
Times
(of London) Best Fiction Book of 2022
"...Clever lines drop down on these pages like flowers thrown on a casket...[a] zany, increasingly dark comedy..." —
The Washington Post
A wildly inventive, savagely funny and topical novel about love, mortality and the afterlife, by the Booker-shortlisted author of
A Fraction of the Whole
.
Angus is a reformed ne'er-do-well looking forward to the birth of his first child when he's murdered by a man who is in love with his pregnant wife Gracie. Having never believed in God, heaven or hell, Angus finds himself in the afterlife - a place that provides more questions than answers. As a worldwide pandemic finally reaches the shores of Australia, the afterlife starts to get very crowded and Angus finds a way to reconnect with his wife Gracie and maybe even seek revenge on his murderer...
Here Goes Nothing
is a novel of exhilarating originality and scope about birth, death and everything in between and after by ‘a writer of prodigious talent’ (Peter Carey) that contains a vision of the afterlife that rivals Dante’s
Divine Comedy
and George Saunders'
Lincoln in the Bardo,
and the emmy-nominated
The Good Place