"Jacqui and Scott have opened their marriage onto uncharted territories. As Axle, their son, makes new friends at a new school, they nudge him along a moderate course. "Down from Upland" is a kitchen sink, domestic novel that opens at the precise moment the first Millennials find themselves raising a teenager. Skewering the best and worst of Wellingtons leafy middle class, the novel features public servants with varying degrees of integrity, the precocious students of Wellington High and a foreign lover at the tail end of a working holiday visa"--Back cover.