num_pages: 228
description: Remember the melodrama of being young and immortal? Simon Donaghue, a precocious student adrift in Oxford's grimy emotional underworld, is, like any seventeen-year-old, more than capable of spite, passion and cowardice. The unfolding of his strange affair with Ginny consumes him body and soul. And, when a darker subtext begins to emerge from the story of his love, he is confronted with a psychologically twisted world where love can lie, and where hate can engulf reason. If I've learnt anything it's that there are different ways of damaging other people. There's damage that is meant. Then there's damage that comes from bungling. Finally there's the damage that is caused simply by standing to one side. The last is almost as bad as the first. As his lover appears to lose her grip on reality, Simon's own belief in what really matters - and in what is really happening around him - falters, leading him farther onto a path of distrust and betrayal that rushes him towards an explosive resolution. A masterful study of trust, obsession and human weakness, The Whitest Woman on the Beach explores how far you'll go to protect those you love - and how much you really want to. 'Poignant, tender and tough: the heartstoppingly marvellous creation that is seventeen-year-old Simon Donaghue..' Suzannah Dunn
language: English
title: The Whitest Woman on the Beach
titlecomplete: The Whitest Woman on the Beach
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Authorhouse