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Bluebottle
Bluebottle | Belinda Castles
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As he tilted the blinds she saw her mother in her tennis whites, standing at the kitchen bench, staring out into the dark bushland that bordered their houses. That was what Tricia did these days, looked into the bush as though it would attack one of them. On a sweltering day in a cliff-top beach shack, Jack and Lou Bright grow suspicious about the behaviour of their charismatic, unpredictable father, Charlie. A girl they know has disappeared, and as the day unfolds, Jack's eruptions of panic, Lou's sultry rebellions and their little sister Phoebe's attention-seeking push the family towards revelation. Twenty years later, the Bright children have remained close to the cliff edges, russet sand and moody ocean of their childhood. Behind the beautiful surfaces of their daily lives lies the difficult landscape of their past, always threatening to break through. And then, one night in late summer, they return to the house on the cliff... Gripping and evocative, Bluebottle is a story of a family bound by an inescapable past, from the award-winning author of The River Baptists and Hannah and Emil.
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Joanne1
Bluebottle | Belinda Castles
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I really enjoyed this story, I think mostly because the characters were so good. Three siblings growing up with a very unpredictable, probably mentally unwell, father and the resulting impact of that childhood as it reverberated through their lives, each in a different way. It‘s told both from the past and the present and has a sinister mystery threaded through each storyline. #ozfiction #stellaprize

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Joanne1
Bluebottle | Belinda Castles
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Another intriguing #ozfiction read. I feel like there‘s something sinister in this one and I‘m looking forward to watching it all unfold.