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|title=Cairo

|author=Chris Womersley

|publisher=Quercus

|date=February 2014

|summary=A book that, given time and patience, reveals its full talent to the reader. Like all the best thrillers it's best not to second-guess – particularly with the assumption that this actually ''is'' a thriller.

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Tom Button has had enough of small-town Australian life, and wants to grasp the nettle at the earliest opportunity and escape for more exotic places as soon as he's free of school and he and a friend can afford it. Until the friend kills that pipe-dream. Plan B for Tom soon becomes the life of a university student in Melbourne, with the chance to live in the apartment his aunt left behind when she died – at least it's in an exotically named development building, called Cairo. But Plan C soon forms for Tom, when he falls in awkwardly with some bohemian neighbours – who still, despite being ten years older, have plans of their own for making their own way to a better life – just not the way Tom ever suspected…