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Oh this sounds good! How could I resist a book with such glowing observations as: 'A love affair so richly and attentively imagined it carries the grace and gravity of memory itself.' - Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams I’m in 🤗
Thank you A&U for another terrific opportunity.
Thanks A&U, looks good!
Sounds great, thanks A&U (fingers crossed!)
Sharkbait! What a pickup line. Sounds intriguing. Thanks A&U
Thank you.. this looks great, and the cover lovely too!
Love a love affair to remember!
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Brenda wrote: "And no speech marks :("I'm usually ok with that myself, Brenda, but I know how much many readers hate that.
I think it would help if publishers had some code to let reviewers know about content warnings, lack of punctuation, etc. There's no point in possibly upsetting or annoyng a reviewer by starting the book off with a handicap. NO" would do it. 😊
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Brenda wrote: "And no speech marks :("I wish I had known that. I would not have entered if I had. I have won a copy so will see how I go with it.
To add to that I strongly suspect that we will never know the protagonist's name. I'm at p76 and I only know that her lover has referred to her as "Sharkbait". Nor does her mother, another important character, have a name so far...And that irritates me too.
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I wish I had known that. I would not have entered if I had. I have won a copy so will see how I go with it."
Good luck Dale - I'm very pleased I didn't enter the draw.
Enter to win one of 20 advance copies of Thirst for Salt by Madelaine Lucas, a compelling and unforgettable debut novel by an acclaimed young Australian writer.
'A love affair so richly and attentively imagined it carries the grace and gravity of memory itself.' - Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams
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 university, 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 drifters - a loving but impulsive mother and an itinerant father. But the arrival of Maeve, a friend from Jude's past, threatens to rock their fragile, newfound intimacy. And when she witnesses something she doesn't fully understand, she finds herself questioning everything - about 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 reveals with stunning, sensual immediacy the way the past can hold us in its thrall, shaping who we are and what we love.
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