Trust: A fractured fable

The extraordinary story of an Irish Ripley, a fraudster and conman who fooled central banks, elite universities, major companies and scores of individual business leaders is in itself captivating and astounding, but he also plied a series of smart sophisticated women with seductive invitations, extravagant gifts and lashings of Yeats…
– Anne Summers AO, author of Unfettered and Alive, and Damned Whores and God’s Police.

Raw and honest…A sadly too common tale of how ego and hubris wreak harm, but equally a testament that the only way to break these cycles is to tell the truth.
– Amy Richards, Producer of the Emmy-nominated Woman (Viceland) and author of We Are Makers. 

I read it in one sitting and loved loved loved it. Truly. It is beautifully and cleverly told, and the various devices – the poetry, the nicknames, the world-wandering, the little hands, the carpets, Paddington – all work splendidly.
– Simon Winchester

Vivid and transparent. Deft. I was absolutely hooked from the first paragraph, and the creeping sense that something was amiss was masterful. The fundamental power is the unflinching basis in truth.
– Professor Joanna Benjamin (Emeritus Professor of Law, The London School of Economics)

A gripping and haunting account of trust betrayed that you won’t be able to put down – a story of dreams, reality, and the wide gap between the two that too often engulfs us all.
– Amanda L. Tyler, co-author with Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue.

This brave fable is an intimate portrait of a relationship destroyed by betrayal, as well as a reflection on our troubled time’s preoccupation with breaches of the public trust. The author leads us thus to the moral of the story: that trust is both fragile and essential and must somehow be helped to flourish; that every betrayal of trust, public or private, ultimately harms each of us and diminishes our ability to live together with open hearts.
– Vicki Laveau-Harvie, author of 2019 Stella Prize-winning memoir The Erratics.