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Item code: 67942169
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Madelaine Lucas
A love affair so richly and attentively imagined it carries the grace and gravity of memory itself.' Leslie Jamison It's hard to remember now that I was once that girl lying in the sand in my red swimsuit and swimming late into the day. Sharkbait he called me. She first sees him in the water: a local man almost twenty years her senior. Adrift in the summer after finishing college a young woman is on holiday with her mother in an isolated Australian coastal town. Finding herself pulled to Jude the man in the water she begins losing herself in the simple seductive rhythms of his everyday life. As their relationship deepens life at Sailors Beach offers her the stability she has been craving as the daughter of two driftersa loving but impulsive mother and an itinerant father. But when she witnesses something she doesn't fully understand she finds herself questioning everythingabout Jude about herself about the life she has and the one she wants. A magnetic and unforgettable story of desire and its complexities and a powerful reckoning with memory loss and longing Madelaine Lucas's debut novel Thirst for Salt reveals with stunning sensual immediacy the way the past can hold us in its thrall shaping who we are and what we love. 'This novel is a beautiful melancholy tide. I felt inexorably pulled to it and by it. Lucas is a brilliant conjurer of emotional and bodily longing. I felt while avidly turning the pages that briny tightness of the skin as though I'd sat in the hot sun after an ocean swim. Thirst for Salt is a sensuous visceral debut.'Heidi Julavits author of Women in Clothes
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