Dice

$36.99

Dice

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2024 Finalist Ngaio Marsh Award Best First Book
2024 Finalist Ngaio Marsh Award Best Fiction

Four teenage boys invent a sex game based on rolling dice and doing what the numbers say.

They are charged with multiple sexual offences against three teenage girls.

Twelve random jurors are brought together in a trial to work out what actually happened.

Only they can say whether crimes have been committed and who should be punished.

How does the jury find?

Dice is a stunning courtroom drama told from the perspective of a diverse group of ordinary people – the jury. How will twelve women and men, aged from eighteen to seventy-two with hugely disparate backgrounds, beliefs and experience, decide whether consent was given or crimes were committed?

How can they possibly arrive at a unanimous verdict? How will justice be properly served?

In this dazzlingly accomplished and gripping debut novel, chapters are told through the point of view of each juror as the trial unfolds. The reader too becomes a jury member as the evidence is presented and information is withheld, fragmented and re-told by different witnesses. Each person must decide where the truth lies.

Will the verdict deliver justice, or just reflect the prejudices and differences in the jury?

ISBN: 9781761067242
Publication date: 04/07/2023
Price: $36.99
RRP: $36.99
Format: Trade Paperback
Available stock: 2
Publishing status: Active
Author: Baylis, Claire
Imprint: Allen and Unwin