LOVE LIKE WATER

A complex, engrossing novel, exploring with integrity and power the boundaries between black and white, city and country, friend and love.

She stole a look at the man in the driver's seat. Sometimes, Jay seemed as familiar as her own self. Other times he was as different as another language. Cathy arrives in Alice Springs from cattle country, looking for a new way to live. But new is a serious challenge for a girl who's sued to being measure by her actions, not her feelings. Feelings are slippery, like water. Hard to hold onto. Jay is working for the local radio station, far from his own saltwater people, wary of this no-water country. He's searching for something, trying to survive. Margie is a wild city girl, up for a good time, confronted by a world she's never known and a friend she can't always understand. When lives collide at the heart of the country, no one stays unchanged.