Publisher's Synopsis
A classic Australian tale of life descending into madness, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony is a three-part novel offering a startling depiction of mental illness in the early 20th century. Richard Mahony is a restless man, forever moving around the globe, from Ballarat to England then to Melbourne and into the bush. Richard is continuously searching for a place to call home with his wife Mary. The pair journey from wealth to poverty, order to chaos and eventually, after being stricken with a debilitating mental illness, from sanity to the asylum.
