Thirst For Salt

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2023
Edition: First Edition

Description: 326 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: “Madelaine Lucass Thirst for Salt gripped me immediately, with the tender acuity of its voice and the propulsive electricity of the relationship at its core: a love affair so richly and attentively imagined it carries the grace and gravity of memory itself. Leslie JamisonIts 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.Its in the water where she first sees him: 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, this 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 the arrival of Maeve, a woman from Judes past, threatens to rock the fragility of their newfound intimacy. And when she witnesses something doesnt fully understand between Maeve and Jude, she finds herself questioning everythingabout Jude, about herself, about the life she has and the one she wants.Years later, when a photograph of Jude with a young childpresumably his owncomes to the surface, she finds herself drawn back to the events that took place at Sailors Beach and the decisions made there that changed the course of both of their lives. A sensuous and unforgettable debut, Madelaine Lucass Thirst for Salt is an electrifying, mesmerizing love story that lingers with powerful, aching emotional depth.

ISBN: 9781761066931