Over This Backbone

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Ultimo Press
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2023
Edition: First Edition

Description: 329 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: I shake my head its only day one.That wind is hot. I can feel the salt drying and gluing my eyebrows and lashes and gripping to the fine hairs on my cheeks. Shoulders, already knotted, ache. Blisters bubble their way to the surface, and I know I should have stopped for them but Im single-minded to the point of recklessness in wanting to keep moving. Feet are too broad for the boots, anyway. Pack is too heavy, but Id never breathe a word of it because thatd prove them right and Im too young to be wrong.Peta has a plan that she is determined to follow a timeline, things to prove but nothing is as expected. She is ghosted by wild dogs, almost trampled by horses, hunted down by the police, dehydrated and flooded-in; but none of this compares to the rollercoaster that is her relationship of the past year. Shifting between Petas journey across the Australian Alps Walking Track and her past, we learn about Peta and Bens tumultuous connection, her attempts to extract herself, and her subsequent experiences in the South Australian desert that both liberated and shattered her.Over This Backbone is about the things we try to bury about when Im fine means the opposite, when battling alone doesnt equate to strength. It is about the Australian landscape and the way it seeps into our bones, the way it rattles and calms us. It is about walking a long way, and walking away.

ISBN: 9781761150791