Sly Fox lives with his one-legged alcoholic father, incontinent Communist grandfather and his dog, Comrade, in a run-down beach shack in the coastal town of Little Bulli. New-boy-in-town Brett 'Harry' Harrison is intrigued by the outcast Sly and strikes up an unlikely and forbidden friendship with him.
Together the boys discover the delights of sex, drugs and cheap booze, but their great passion is the story of Sly's pioneering ancestors, as revealed by the dusty and fragile Fox family chronicles.
Sly and Harry's friendship is indestructible, or so they think, until a shocking act of betrayal alters the course of their lives forever. Rick Fenley was born in 1962 and raised at Bulli, about fifteen kilometres south of the setting for Sly, his first novel. He is a journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald. Married with two daughters, he lives at Bondi.
