THE ALBATROSS, by Nina Wan (Macmillan, $37.99)
Meet the deadpan, intelligent Primrose Li, a woman obviously in crisis. We first encounter her at a dying urban golf course in Melbourne. Why a 36-yearold mother of a young daughter, with a husband recovering from cancer, would want to visit this place is puzzling until you find out this is where she went with her golf-mad high-school boyfriend Peter before he left for college in the US. He now lives across the road from Primrose with his glamorous wife, Louisa, who likes to think she’s Primrose’s friend. Primrose is married to lecturer Adrian, who still prefers the liquid
