Kill Your Boomers is a witty and hilarious satire about the depressing reality of housing prices in Australia.

Keira’s life was tragic enough. Single with no kids, living in a share house with a rotting hole in the floorboards, and working as a nanny for two bratty twins was not how she pictured her life would be in when she arrived in her mid-30s. Now her best friend Dylan has just announced that he has bought an apartment. Keira has had enough. When her roommates joke that the only solution is to kill their parents and get their house for themselves, Keira hatches a plan. Why not do exactly that, especially when that would’ve inevitably been her inheritance anyway? She would just be speeding up the process, that’s all …

As macabre as this plot sounds, it will nonetheless connect with many who cannot afford to pay rent, let alone buy a house. The idea of the ‘Australian Dream’ is very much a thing of the past, where working hard at a regular job brought in enough to enable you to afford a home, a car, and even to send the kids to a private school. The reality is that sometimes the only thing getting in the way of attaining relative wealth or a house are parents or grandparents, who were able to purchase a home in more affordable times.

Kill Your Boomers is thrilling and audacious and, of course, shows a dehumanising lack of love or respect for your family members if you’re ruminating on the financial benefits of their death. But this is exactly what fiction is for – to live out those wild fantasies, which we would never do in real life. So, after reading this book in one sitting, I implore you all to indulge in this black comedy as Keira does what we wouldn’t – to get that inheritance by any means possible.