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The story, set in the suburbs of Melbourne, follows the lives of a group of people after they witness a man slapping someone else's child at a party. The single act is so divisive, that a family and life-long friends are [[Serious Business|torn apart]] by interwoven loyalties, and the result [[Rule of Drama|is not pretty]].
The book has won or been shortlisted for numerous awards, including the Man Booker Prize 2010, and Commonwealth Writers Prize 2009 (in the latter case it won Best Book). Recently, [[The Remake| American adaptation]] has since starting to air on [[NBC]] in 2015.
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* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: [[Sophie Okonedo]] from ''[[Hotel Rwanda]]'' is Aisha.
** Melissa George (formerly of ''[[Alias]]'') is Rosie.
** The American Harry looks a lot like [[Heroes (TV series)| Sylar]]
* [[Inciting Incident]]: Harry slapping Hugo.
* [[Jerkass Has a Point]]: Harry may be a bastard, but considering that Hugo was about to hit a kid with a cricket bat, he's pretty justified in wanting to do something about it. Slapping him after the bat had been taken away might not have been the best idea, though...
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* [[Race Lift]]: in the book Aisha is Indian-Australian, in the miniseries she is Mauritian-Australian. The seductive bloke who was Asian-Australian in the book becomes a Latino-Australian.
* [[Rashomon Style]]: The events in the book are explored through the perspective of several different characters.
* [[Papa Wolf]]: Harry was trying to save his son, Rocco, and had no choice but to slap Hugo.
** [[Pet the Dog]]: His goal was protecting Rocco.
* [[Serious Business]]: A child is slapped once. It tears a family apart. How reasonable any of this is is left to the reader/viewer.
* [[Spoiled Brat]]: The kid who gets slapped. So, ''so'' much. At one point, he actually ''spits'' at an old man who has done absolutely nothing to him, and his mother's response is to assume said old man startled her child.
* [[Time Skip]]: Episode 5 of the miniseries is set about two months after the previous one.
* [[Would Hurt a Child]]: Harry slaps Hugo, but he had a reason, even his mother, Koula, agreed that [[Kick the Son of a Bitch| Hugo had it coming]].
* [[Your Cheating Heart]]: Several characters including Hector, Aisha and Harry.
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