THE FIX by Nick Earls Format: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781864711509 Imprint: Vintage Australia Released in August, 2011

Reading Group Questions 1. Nick Earls has been renowned for his everyman novels. Does he pull off the genre change to detective fiction (or touch of the detective as we have been calling it)? 2. Josh writes a blog where he stretches the truth; he has a job where his responsibility is to enhance the truth. Jett is Hayley, but Hayley isnt Jett. Has the world become a place of spin? What do you think Nick Earls is saying about the modern world? 3. Josh is a bit hopeless, isnt he? Will Hayley sort him out, or does he need something more radical to get him on a different path? 4. How important is the location of The Fix? Earls includes vivid details about Brisbane and the Gold Coast. Is this particular setting imperative or could the story be picked up and relocated anywhere? 5. How ordinary did you find the characters in The Fix? Did you almost feel like some of your own inner thoughts or family in-jokes were being exposed on the page? Do you feel you could almost slot into the role of any of the characters in The Fix? 6. Though perhaps not immediately obvious, The Fix and The Great Gatsby have much in common. What do you think about this idea?

Reading Group Questions from The Fix by Nick Earls Available in bookshops August, 2011 | ISBN: 9781864711509 Imprint: Vintage Australia | Publisher: Random House Australia
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