Moral Hazard

‘This is a unique book by an extraordinary writer, the great city illuminated from within. Kate Jennings brings all her powers of pace and tone to bear in a novel that is humane and unsparing; witty, unsettling, and wildly intelligent. I know of no other voice that so conveys the contemporary workplace in its vulnerability and its denaturing, and its difficult morality.’ * Shirley Hazzard, author of The Transit of Venus *
‘An engrossing, cautionary tale for the twenty-first century…with unsparing rapier wit.’ * Philadelphia Enquirer *
‘A work of considerable formal beauty.’ * Age *
‘The finest novel I’ve read this year…Don’t let its brevity fool you. Moral Hazard is a big book in the truest sense of the word.’ * Salon.com *
‘Written in spare and starkly honest prose, this novel foreshadows the recent accounting scandals at Enron, World-Com and other companies, and shows that even in the midst of corruption and tragedy, individuals can stick to their beliefs.’ * Wall Street Journal *
‘Jennings is a writer of substance—and Moral Hazard is substantial writing.’ * Australian *
‘Compelling reading; Cath’s thorny humour adapts well to both terminal illness and terminal greed.’ * New York Observer *
‘An insider’s view of the city without the spin; a steely, unsentimental vision delivered with a poet’s sure touch.’ * Bulletin *
‘An extraordinary novel: pleasurable and powerful, mordant and harrowing.’ * New Statesman *
‘A piercing novel, gleaming with facets of hard-won knowledge, polished by experience and a keen intelligence.’ * Publisher’s Weekly *
‘Moral Hazard is a rare book in the way it looks not just at our contemporary globalised financial world, but more widely at work, our relationship to it, and the moral choices we make in work and in life.’ * Whispering Gums *

Kate Jennings was a poet, essayist, short-story writer and novelist. Both her novels, Snake and Moral Hazard, were New York Times Notable Books of the Year, and she won the ALS Gold Medal, the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and the Adelaide Festival fiction prize. She died in 2021.

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