| Record Number |
866614 |
| ISBN |
9781460759585 (paperback) |
| Author |
McCausland, Vanessa author. |
| Title |
The beautiful words / Vanessa McCausland. |
| Publisher/Date |
Sydney, NSW : HarperCollins Australia, 2021. |
| ©2021 |
| Pagination etc. |
360 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Contents note |
"Two best friends, one summer night, and twenty years of silence ..."--Cover. |
| Summary Note |
Two best friends, one summer night, and twenty years of silence ... what happened at the lighthouse? Sylvie is a lover of words and a collector of stories, only she has lost her own. She has no words for that night at the lighthouse when their lives changed forever. What happened to cleave her apart from her best friend and soulmate, Kase? Sylvie yearns to rekindle their deep connection, so when Kase invites her to the wild Tasmanian coast to celebrate her 40th birthday, she accepts - despite the ghosts she must face. As Sylvie struggles to find her feet among old friends, she bonds with local taxi boat driver Holden. But he is hiding from the world, too. Through an inscription in an old book, Sylvie and Kase discover their mothers have a history, hidden from their daughters. As they unpick what took place before they were born, they're forced to face the rift in their own friendship, and the question of whether it's ever okay to keep a secret to protect the person you love. |
| Subject |
Best friends -- Fiction |
| Mothers and daughters -- Fiction |
| Family secrets -- Fiction |
| Books and reading -- Fiction |
| Friendship -- Fiction |
| Life change events -- Fiction |
| Lighthouses -- Fiction |
| Secrecy -- Fiction |
| Australian fiction |
| Tasmania -- Fiction |
| Domestic fiction |
| Shelf Location |
F MACC |
