Publication Date: 26 May 2026
ISBN: 9781764392501
eBook ISBN: 9781764392518
Format: Paperback
AUD: $32.99
Unspoken
Francis McGuire is a political adviser with one job in the final week before the federal election: oversee the launch of the Opposition’s centrepiece health policy - her boss’s legacy. Everything is ready - until the party’s ruthless campaign strategist, David Perkins, makes his move. At his side is Rob Parisi, the Opposition Leader who will do anything to become Prime Minister. Perkins never loses, and Parisi tolerates his tactics for that reason.
When their plan to sabotage their own policy backfires, Perkins pins the blame on Francis. She’s hounded by the press, publicly shamed and cast out.
In efforts to escape the public eye, she flees to a small town on the West Australian south coast - the same one she retreated from after her father’s fatal car accident years earlier. But rather than finding solace, she’s swept up in something much more sinister...
An organised crime syndicate. Corruption at the highest levels. A ruthless contest for power and control. And a murder that will unravel democracy as we know it. Will Francis expose the secrets the powerful will kill to protect, or will the truth remain Unspoken?
Buy now
(price may vary by retailer)
Or at your local bookstore!
About the Author
Based in Tasmania, D A Fletcher has spent the last twenty years working at the heart of Australian politics - across the Senate, the House of Representatives and the Tasmanian House of Assembly - after earlier careers in teaching and corporate finance. She advised a former President of the Senate, was a campaign strategist and office manager for backbenchers, and headed media and communications for a shadow minister, gaining a front-row seat to power and policy. For a decade she's been shaping Unspoken, squeezing it into the long hours of political life.