Floating: Nanette is not ready to become obsolete just yet.

by Nerina L. Jones

WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN LIFE LETS YOU DOWN AND THE WORLD IS ABOUT TO LEAVE YOU BEHIND?It’s the 80s when 40-year old Nanette Marigold Pollo leaves her philandering husband. As she tries to re-discover her place in the world, she must navigate a rapidly emerging digital workplace that has no space for a woman with traditional skills and values. But Nanette is not ready to become obsolete just yet.

As Nanette’s hometown of Floating City rises and falls with the seasons, the known boundaries of reality are set adrift.

Nanette tries to keep her head above water in the wake of surging digital technologies that lead her to question the nature of reality and the imaginary.

Author Nerina Jones’s powerful debut novel depicts sisterhood, courage, and misogyny from the lens of a woman who is far from accepting the fate she’s been dealt.


A beautiful story of a woman's journey and coming of age through the history of computing ~
Jacqueline Ross, author of BlackWater.

266 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 15, 2026

About the author

Nerina L Jones was raised in Melbourne's outer east. She had a widely varied working life, obtained a Diploma of Visual Arts and was a guest art teacher at primary and secondary level in rural Gippsland. Nerina was also a public servant, briefly in the 60s and later for 12 years with VicPol at the close of the millennium.
Nerina subsequently traded her paint brush for a pen, gained an MA in writing at Swinburne University and was employed as an online tutor of writing before gaining a PhD in 2019.
Floating is Nerina's first long-form work to be published.

Reviews

[Wendy Dunn · Rating 5 out of 5]

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