Michael Noonan

Childproof Michael Noonan

When all their friends start young families and their dinner-party lifestyle is ruined, a wealthy couple hires an assassin to kill all the children and restore the adults-only decadence that completes them.

Will and Rose were happy once.

Long ago, when they partied with their special clique of friends on the mezzanine of their multi-million-dollar mansion. If you were gawking over their electrified gate after midnight, you'd see their dancing, champagne-flute-holding silhouettes through silk curtains. Oh, the privilege.

There were four couples in all, and they gathered every Friday night for six-to-seven hours of shameless hedonism. It was their end-of-week ode to self-indulgence and Will and Rose never thought it would end.

But then it did, beginning with four terrifying words, uttered flippantly before the main course on a stormy November evening:

"We're having a baby."

NOT SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN OR PEOPLE WHO LIKE CHILDREN
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