num_pages: 240
description: We arrived on a Tuesday I can remember that. I can remember Hettys hand in mine as we moved slowly down the steps of the escalator as if standing completely still would have been harder than moving.Hetty and Ness best friends since childhood have left suburban Melbourne for the first time to live abroad. Hetty is charming and captivating the life of the party. Ness is a wallflower hopelessly in love with her. In the student quarter of Toronto the pair take a room in a share house full of self-assured creatives. Hetty disappears into barkeeping work and a whirlwind nightlife while Ness drifts aimlessly. But when Ness finds Hope one day in the art gallery an intense affair develops. There are new friends too and a job: at last her life starts to make some sense. And Hettys starts spectacularly to fall apart in a mess of bad drugs and bad men.As winter freezes the lakeside city the dark undercurrents of Hettys characterabusive relationships a dangerous obsession with bodies of waterbecome ever stronger. Ness may lose the person she loves more than anyone else in the world.Beautifully written and intimate Cherry Beach is a revelatory story of friendship and desire.
language: English
title: Cherry Beach
publisher: Text Publishing