Mortal Mischief Keith Donohue 1958: unassuming civil servant Thomas

1958: unassuming civil servant Thomas Foley is plucked from his desk job and sent on a six-month trip to Brussels

and a woman adept in the martial arts

failure and broken lives

while his classmates swap football stickers

Set in the unforgiving landscape of the Australian outback

Mortal Mischief Keith Donohue 1958: unassuming civil servant ThomasIt is Vienna at the beginning of the last century, and Dr Max Liebermann is a young psychoanalyst and disciple of Freud. Psychoanalysis is only just developing and viewed with a mixture of excitement and suspicion. The world of 1900s Vienna is one where philosophy, science and art are at their most exciting and flourishing, with the coffee shops full of men and women debating the latest cultural and political theories. Liebermann's good friend Oskar