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THE GEOGRAPHY OF FRIENDSHIP

Sally Piper

When three women return for a five-day hike through the bush where their friendship fractured years earlier, they are forced to face up to their past and the haunting legacy of the man who changed their lives forever.
Lisa, Samantha and Nicole have known each other since high school. Their friendship is based on their differences more than their similarities. Lisa is a fighter, Samantha a peacekeeper and Nicole a rule follower. United they bring out the best in one another.

As they set off to hike through a wilderness area, an altercation with a man at the trailhead car park quickly escalates. Over the next five days, as they traverse the challenges of the terrain and their survival skills in the bush, it soon becomes clear that they are not alone. The freedom they feel soon turns to fear. Only once it is too late for them to turn back do they appreciate the full threat of the man. As their friendship is tested, each of the girls must make an irrevocable choice.

Sally Piper is a former nurse who lives and writes in Brisbane. Her debut novel Grace's Table (UQP) was shortlisted for the 2011 Queensland Premier's Literary Award Emerging Queensland Author category and in 2013 she was awarded a Varuna Publishing Fellowship for her manuscript. She holds a Master of Arts in Creative Writing from Queensland University of Technology. She currently mentors other writers on the Queensland Writers Centre 'Writer's Surgery' program.
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Published 2018-07-01 by UQP University of Queensland Press - St Lucia (AUS)

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Published 2018-07-01 by UQP University of Queensland Press - St Lucia (AUS)

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The Geography of Friendship by Sally Piper is longlisted for ABIA Small Publishers' Adult Book of the Year Read more...

Beautifully written, unfolding like the contours of the landscape, and grounded in a deep understanding of friendship between women.

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UK: Legend

Sally Piper shows great insight into the intensity and importance of teenage girls' friendships, and into the way shame and unvoiced anger erode relationships ... This is a gripping, haunting, moving novel that made me want to call up my best friends from high school and talk about all the things that were too terrible to face back then.