OBSERVER: The Bunny Club
Blanche d’Alpuget is a successful and prolific writer, and her latest book has taken her in quite a new direction.
Best known as a writer for her historical fiction, essays, and biographies of her late husband, former prime minister Bob Hawke, Blanche has just written her first crime fiction novel entitled The Bunny Club.
Enter the world of Evelyn Sinclair, a beloved morning TV host whose glamorous life takes a dark turn. While on the surface life is good as a TV star adored by her public, behind the scenes at the TV station forces are at work to kill her career.
Evelyn decides to leave it all behind for a weekend and escape with her lover to her country mansion in Bowral, but instead of indulging in a weekend of romance and freedom, she is found dead under mysterious and chilling circumstances.
Red herrings and clues abound, and nothing is as it seems, in this racy story of crime, intrigue and redemption, before the truth is finally uncovered. Readers looking for a thrill will enjoy The Bunny Club, although it might shock the faint-hearted or conservative reader.
At the age of 81, Blanche d’Alpuget is full of joie de vivre and has no desire to slow down and take it easy. In fact, as The Bunny Club is being launched, she already has plans for her next novel.
Having been a writer for 50 years, she says she is a compulsive writer and gets so much joy out of her craft.
The Bunny Club by Blanche d’Alpuget is published by Popcorn Press and will be released on March 28.
Julie Houghton

