Fourth Estate acquires Dalton’s new novel

Fourth Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins Australia, has acquired world rights to Gravity Let Me Go, a novel by Trent Dalton.

Gravity Let Me Go follows journalist Noah Cork and a story he almost misses while pursing his dreams.

‘Dark, gritty, hilarious and unexpected, Gravity Let Me Go is a novel about marriage and ambition; truth-telling and truth-omitting; self-deception and self-preservation,’ said the publisher. ‘It’s a novel about the stories we want to tell the world and those we shouldn’t, and how the stories we keep locked away are so often the stories that come to define us.’

Dalton is the author of Boy Swallows Universe, All Our Shimmering Skies, Love Stories and Lola in the Mirror. He has also won two Walkley Awards for his journalism – in 2011 and 2015.

Discussing the acquisition, Dalton said: ‘This is the most personal book I’ve ever written. It’s a marriage story buried inside a murder mystery. It’s a story about a journalist, a husband, a father of two living in the northern suburbs of Brisbane who becomes so obsessed with the true crime scoop of his lifetime that he almost misses an even bigger scoop: the one about true love and the very meaning of his life.’

HarperCollins publisher Catherine Milne said: ‘Trent’s superpower is the size of his heart, which is on full display in this dark, rollicking, tense, grittily funny and powerfully moving novel, which is surprising in all the very best of ways. There is such darkness in this story, but it is riven with light and hope, and love runs right the way through it.’

HarperCollins plans to release Gravity Let Me Go on 30 September 2025.

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