14 Apr 2019

Greg McGee's new novel exposes family secrets

From Standing Room Only, 2:26 pm on 14 April 2019
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A story about a family where an aging father and his three children are keeping big secrets from each other is at the heart of the latest novel by Greg McGee, Necessary Secrets.

It follows several crime novels published under the pseudonym Alix Bosco, as well as several written under his own name including The Antipodeans, and two sports biographies.

In Necessary Secrets, Greg weaves elements of the rapidly changing advertising world into this new book.

He tells Lynn Freeman the story had its seeds in a discarded play and in thinking about the baby boomer generation, the millenials, and especially the ones in between:

Upstart Press has published Greg McGee's novel Necessary Secrets.