Wild Things
HarperCollins, $29.99 pb, 368 pp
Fiction
Wild Things by Brigid Delaney
by Doug Wallen •
‘The boys are behaving badly’ is the coy tagline for journalist Brigid Delaney’s début novel, about an élite Australian university’s cricket team subjecting a Malaysian exchange student to a grisly hazing ritual that goes too far. Such understatement isn’t indicative of the book itself, which follows a group of thinly drawn characters through pained, often melodramatic soul-searching.
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