Red Dress Walking

‘Red Dress Walking is the promising début of Western Australian author S.A. Jones. A revealing look at friendships and love affairs, and the cumulative minutiae that make and break them...Red Dress Walking is testament to a promising talent’. Hannah Kent, author Burial Rites and The Good People, in Australian Book Review

‘A beautifully written and intellectually interesting novel’, Kerryn Goldsworthy in the Sydney Morning Herald

‘[An] extraordinary book which nearly forced me to cut my head off in order to go into the day’. Jane Gleeson White, author Double Entry, Six Capitals, Classics and Australian Classics

When Will gives Emily a stunning, deeply sexy red dress, somehow everything changes ... a playful, modern, engrossing novel of ideas, books, love, relationships, breakdowns and break-ups.

The dress haunts my steps. Flashes of red on the street mesmerise me. I am alive to red cars, red shoes and the red of Suella’s lipstick. It is silken laudanum that has thrown a distorting fi lm over everything. The dress flutters through my dream life like a taunting red banner. Dreams innocuous and surreal are sure to be punctuated by a crimson flash. Sometimes there is just the barest hint of it so I am not even certain that it flared at all.

This is the story of an intimate circle of friends and one couple, Will and Emily, who are very much in love with each other. But one day Will gives Emily a stunning, deeply sexy red dress, and somehow everything changes. A thought-provoking novel of beauty, books, love and desire, Red Dress Walking is a playful, clever and sexy novel about men and women, breakdowns and break-ups, the fierce friendships that women have, and what certain books mean to us.