Maybe the Horse Will Talk
Elliot Perlman

Maybe the Horse Will Talk
Elliot Perlman
What if the only way to keep your job was to antagonise your boss?
Stephen Maserov has problems. A onetime teacher, married to fellow teacher Eleanor, he has retrained and is now a second-year lawyer working at mega-firm Freely Savage Carter Blanche. Despite toiling around the clock to make budget, he’s in imminent danger of being downsized. And to make things worse, Eleanor, sick of single-parenting their two young children thanks to Stephen’s relentless work schedule, has asked him to move out.
Review
by Mark Rubbo
It’s a long time since Elliot Perlman’s last novel The Street Sweeper and it’s so good to see him back. Perlman’s work looks at social issues through the prism of a mighty fine story. He’s looked at the social impact of economic rationalism, greed and mental health, racism and the Holocaust. Now he turns his eye to corporate lawyers and #MeToo.
Stephen Maserov, a former teacher, has retrained as a lawyer to give his family financial security. He’s now a second-year lawyer for a big corporate law firm but lives in fear that he won’t get tenure. Meanwhile, his wife, who was complicit in the career change, has asked him to move out because of the hours he’s working. By chance and chutzpah, Stephen stumbles on a chance to save his job and career path. Along the way he encounters an array of eccentric characters who’ll join him in his exposure of the corrupt corporate world. Can a sexual harassment case lead to justice? Will Stephen win and the little man triumph?
Maybe the Horse Will Talk is a funny, biting and yet warm look at contemporary Australia and modern relationships. It’s good to have Perlman back!
Mark Rubbo is the managing director of Readings.
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