We All Fall Down is a vivid and compelling narrative of middle class friends and families, relationships and the contemporary workplace. Kate andHugh Drysdale like many couples buy a house that stretches them to thelimits financially. Hugh looks at the soaring property market, the fact he'searning a good salary, and all the signs of a booming economy and believeseverything will be fine. And it is, until the advertising company he works forhits a rough patch: two major pieces of business walk out of the door, and anew creative director from the UK is brought in. Set in Sydney when world economic instability is beginning to bite, this is very much a book of our time. Peopled with unforgettable characters it is a disturbing, but affecting portrait of family, the workplace, and the costs of playing, or not playing the game. In We All Fall Down Peter Barry brings his witty, razor-sharp vision to human nature, life in suburbia and the moral dilemmas that face us all.