Here Goes Nothing

A Times (of London) Best Fiction Book of 2022 A wildly inventive,savagely funny and topical novel about lovemortality and the afterlifeby 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 Godheaven or hellAngus finds himself in the afterlife – a place that provides more questions than answers. As a worldwide pandemic finally reaches the shores of Australiathe 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 birthdeath and everything in between and after by ΓÇÿa writer of prodigious talentΓÇÖ (Peter Carey) that contains a vision of the afterlife that rivals DanteΓÇÖs Divine Comedy and George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardoand the emmy-nominated The Good Place.