The long awaited second novel from Fiona McGregor, which charts the dance parties, relationships and creative endeavours of a group of friends in '90s Sydney.
We follow a group of friends along their interwoven paths of creativity, hedonism, tragedy and love. In a city of humidity, harshness and beauty, of constant change, they struggle against adversity to create bacchanalian fantasies, celebrations and rituals whose ephemera echoes throughout their lives long after sunrise.
McGregor brings us the heat, the sweat, the excess, the work behind the play, and the fallow periods of stillness and foment. Chemical Palace is a journey into the heart of Sydney's queer dance party culture.
Fiona McGregor showed us she was a remarkable writer with Au Pair and the award winning story collection, Suck My Toes. This novel fulfils the promise of her earlier work, and more, shows us that McGregor is one of the Australia's finest writers.
