Alice and Louise are sisters united by a distant tragedy – the house fire their brother lit and burnt to death in- fourteen years ago. Alice teaches dirt-poor students at a state high school that the government wants to close- and she pursues an epi- sodic- estranged relationship with a married man. Louise- a habitual liar and recovering heroin addict- has been playing 'the danger game' since she was a child- and she can't stop. But when Louise decides to unravel the truth about her twin brother's death- and seeks out the mother that abandoned her as a ten-year-old- everything changes. With preoccupations reminiscent of Elliot Perlman- The Danger Game is a work of literary realism- told through three voices in a pared-back style laced with black humour. The Danger Game is at once unsentimental account of deprivation and resistance- and a critique of the human cost of untrammelled economic rationalism. This is a novel about damage: the damage we do to each other and the damage the world can do to us.