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FICTION
256 Pages, 5.25 x 8
EPUB, $9.99 (US $9.99) (CA $9.99)
Publication Date: October 2010
ISBN 9781921696527
Rights: WOR
Fremantle Press (Oct 2010)
Presenting a powerful story of motherhood and loss, this novel explores the complexities of grief and disconnection—and what it takes to become connected again. Gaelle, a 30-year-old beauty editor for a fashion magazine, she is ambivalent about motherhood, and she sleeps around—not because she does not love her heart-surgeon husband Jason, but because the very fact of love is a terrifying thing. She finds it easier to keep moving, in the heart and the mind, than to stay still and own who she is. A multi-layered story of marriage, this novel employs delicate yet powerful prose that builds to a moving revelation.
"Luminous and delicate, clean and alive . . . Lester can write prose of overwhelming beauty and suggestive power . . . this haunting, wise book heralds the arrival of a remarkable Australian talent." —The Age
"Avoids the danger of simplicity by using the sparse events and characters to crystallise the concern centred on Gaelle." —Overland literary journal
"Lester [adopts] a richer, more fluid writing style, and weav[es] stories into stories to imbue key events with a strange mythical resonance . . . an enjoyable book that will appeal to female readers." —Australian Bookseller+Publisher
"Natasha Lester paints a beautiful picture . . . Lester has very carefully carved a multi-faceted heroine you can't help but feel for and love." —Canning Examiner
"A beautifully written, sensitive book . . . It is at its strongest in the interplay of metaphor and visual imagery; an interplay that leaves the reader with an enduring sense of richness." —Australian Women Online