RAW BLUE

Award-winning novel by Kirsty Eagar, author of Saltwater Vampires and Night Beach. Raw Blue was awarded the 2010 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Young Adult Fiction prize.

Readers of Tim Winton's Breath will be drawn to Kirsty Eagar's Raw Blue, an achingly beautiful young adult novel set in Sydney's northern beaches. Winner of the 2010 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, it is a haunting story about finding your passion in life.
Carly has dropped out of uni to spend her days surfing and her nights working as a cook in a Manly café. Surfing is the one thing she loves doing... and the only thing that helps her stop thinking about what happened two years ago. Then she meets Ryan and Carly has to decide. Will she let the past bury her? Or can she let go of her anger and shame, and find the courage to be happy?

Kirsty Eagar grew up on a cattle property in central Queensland. After studying economics, she worked on trading desks in Sydney and London before changing careers so she could surf every day. She travelled around Australia in a four-wheel drive, worked as a cook and personal trainer, and began writing fiction. Her first novel Raw Blue won the 2010 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for young adult fiction and her second novel, Saltwater Vampires, has been shortlisted for the Ethel Turner Prize in the 2011 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. Kirsty is married with two daughters and lives on Sydney's northern beaches.