April Book Club book review: Kill Your Boomers by Fiona Wright
Read and reviewed by team member Jas.
A darkly funny novel about the chaos of modern life. Fiona Wright mixes biting satire with moments of warmth and friendship, finding humour in the mess and madness of trying to get by. Sharp, satirical, and thought‑provoking — a story that lingers long after the final page.
If you read along with us in April, let us know what you thought of Kill Your Boomers in the comments.
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Join us for an author talk with Fiona Wright, who will discuss her new book Kill Your Boomers!
🔖About Kill Your Boomers:
The great Australian dream is slipping away for Keira. No partner, no house, and no kids at 30-ish. Her part-time job as a nanny to twins provides barely enough money for the G&Ts she finds necessary to get through her other job as a freelance copywriter.
Her solution? The bank of Mum and Dad. So she hatches a plan to speed up the process of wealth transfer...
📌 Five Dock Library
⌚️ 16 April | 5:30 - 7:30pm
🍷 Light refreshments will be provided
🖊️ Meet the author and have your book signed!
👉 Free, but bookings required. Book via the link in bio or here: bit.ly/ccb-fiona-wright
Join us for what is bound to be a fascinating conversation with @writesfiona , who is a beloved writer, editor and critic from Sydney. She is also the host of Six Degrees From the City, a podcast about writers and Western Sydney.
If you've ever done the maths on buying a home, this one's for you.
Fiona Wright @writesfiona joins Guardian Australia culture editor Steph Harmon to discuss her debut novel Kill Your Boomers.
Kill Your Boomers follows Keira, a woman in her thirties trying to get a foothold in a housing market that seems designed to keep her out. It's a darkly funny look at housing, generational tension, and the exhausting pursuit of the Great Australian Dream.
📍 Marrickville Library Pavilion
⏰ Wednesday 22 April, 6.30pm-7.30pm
🆓 Free, register now
🌐 www.innerwest.nsw.gov.au/LibraryEvents
🔝 Link in the bio or call 9392 5588
#KillYourBoomers #AuthorTalk #HomeOwnership #HousingMarket #DreamHome
Favourite happy snaps from last night’s launch, including the moment @luke_f_carman called me out for writing real estate erotica; my best ladies mugging it up; and Virginia Woof assuming that it’s all about her. Excellent night.
Ultimo Press is thrilled to reveal the cover for Kill Your Boomers by @writesfiona .
Critically acclaimed author Fiona Wright takes on the Australian housing crisis with an interesting solution: speeding up the inheritance plan by all means necessary. Bri Lee calls it ‘a devastating portrait of precarity. Funny, harsh, and sharp in all the right places’. Felicity Castagna says ‘this is a dark, hilarious and urgent book’. Both a darkly funny deconstruction of the real estate market and a gripping tale of millennial malaise, Kill Your Boomers is Selling Sunset meets Dexter.
About the book:
The great Australian dream is slipping out of reach for Keira and her friends. No partner, no house, no kids. At 30-ahem, she is still languishing in a mould-filled share house, with an unexplained and ever-growing hole in the floorboards that threatens to consume her and her housemates.
When her best friend Dylan is able to buy an apartment with the help of his partner’s inheritance, Keira sees a way out. The bank of Mum and Dad. But what to do with parents who are in the rudest of health, and whose plans threaten to spend the only lifeline she has? From the lounge room of her rotting share house she hatches a deadly plan to speed up the process of wealth transfer.
An audacious book that asks just how far you will go to get your dream house (or at least a one bedroom flat without mushrooms growing in the bathroom).
Kill Your Boomers is publishing this April - 🔗check the link in our bio to preorder!
Do you like libraries and bars and books? Upcoming event at @statelibrarynsw with these hot smarties 🔥🔥🔥(tix here: https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/fresh-takes-autumn-26)
SYDNEY FOLK: I am having a BOOK PARTY featuring the very awesome @luke_f_carman and y’all should come. Register here: /events/kill-your-boomers-launch-fiona-wright-in-conversation-with-luke-carman
