Demons

They were going to tell stories. Let's go away for the weekend, said Megan, and leave ourphones behind and turn off the computers and television and stop time because time is movingtoo fast and soon we'll all be saying where the hell did our lives go? We'll cook some food anddrink some wine and each tell a story.
It is the middle of winter. Seven friends travel to a remote coastal beach house for the weekend.Without phones, internet or television, they sit around the fireplace, telling stories - eachexposing the foibles of humankind. But as a storm rolls in and torrential rain cuts the party offfrom the outside world, it soon becomes clear that some secrets are best kept hidden.
Demons is an extraordinary novel by one of Australia's great writers.