`An extraordinarily moving love story' Observer
A couple lie naked in the dunes at Baritone Bay, at the spot where, almost thirty years before, they had first had sex as students. Nostalgia has sent Celice and Joseph back to their singing stretch of coast, but in the seeming calm of the afternoon they meet a brutal and unexpected fate - one which will still their bodies but not their love, and certainly not their story.
`A work of near-genius' Literary Review
`A swirling symphonic celebration of the glory of the natural world' The Times
`Intensely imagined and deeply felt' Hilary Mantel, Sunday Times
`One of the most haunting books I read this year' Carol Shields, Guardian
`Magnificent' Sunday Telegraph
`Astonishing' Daily Telegraph
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
A couple lie naked in the dunes at Baritone Bay, at the spot where, almost thirty years before, they had first had sex as students. Nostalgia has sent Celice and Joseph back to their singing stretch of coast, but in the seeming calm of the afternoon they meet a brutal and unexpected fate - one which will still their bodies but not their love, and certainly not their story.
- ISBN10 067088989X
- ISBN13 9780670889891
- Publish Date 2 September 1999
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 January 2010
- Publish Country AU
- Publisher Penguin Books Australia
- Imprint Viking Australia
- Edition Open market ed
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English