Moral Hazard

Cath, born in Australia, calls herself a feminist and an unreconstructed leftist, and she has always distrusted bankers. But her husband Bailey has Alzheimer's disease, and his care costs serious money. So in the mid-1990s she gives up freelance writing and becomes a speechwriter at one of Wall Street's big investment firms, a hostile place for women, where she drafts cautious phrases for executives as the markets head towards trouble. For seven years she moves between two worlds: by day the egos and twisted logic of the bank, after dark her Manhattan home, where she watches her beloved husband lose his memory and his language.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

United States, 1990s

First published

2002

Author's age

54 when first published

ISBN

9780330363402 (Picador, Australia)

9781841157375 (Fourth Estate, United Kingdom)

9780007141081 (Fourth Estate, United States)

9781922182159 (Text Publishing, Australia)

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