Readings Best Books of 2024 Fiction
A tweet. A storm. A secret. A revelation. In this age of isolation what brings six very different people together?
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Lexi Bostick is losing her grip on the environmental organisation sheTMs devoted decades of her life to. Sidney is avoiding everyoneincluding the persistent stranger who keeps coming into the cafA bookstore where sheTMs been hiding since she dropped out of her PhD. Govita is living in their studio space illegally and taking ketamine instead of working on their art. Somehow theyTMve also managed to adopt a dog. Thirty-something single dad Tomas watches too many movies alone at nightvisited by memories of the housemate who once made the place feel like a home.
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And then thereTMs Henry a Vietnam veteran aging out in rural isolation writing hateful letters to the person he blames for ruining his life
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Written with an extraordinary range of understanding The Temperature is a compelling portrait of life in our fracturing society. Following the award-winning Women I Know it confirms Katerina Gibson as one of the most ambitious engaging and significant of our emerging writers.
Gibson is a masterful storyteller. These characters became kin their humanity palpable and familiar. I am obsessed.TMA Ella Baxter author of New AnimalA
An exquisite complex and timely novel With sharp awareness and a wry playfulness The Temperature explores the questions connections and devastating truths of the times we find ourselves in.TM Else Fitzgerald author of Everything Feels Like the End of the World
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A smart tender and sometimes deliciously vicious study of six very different people trying to find their way through broken times.TM Kate Mildenhall author of The Hummingbird Effect
- ISBN10 1761426567
- ISBN13 9781761426568
- Publish Date 3 September 2024
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country AU
- Imprint Simon & Schuster Australia
- Edition Unabridged
- Format Audiobook (MP3)
- Duration 10 hours and 50 minutes
- Language English