Cherry Beach - Laura McPhee-Browne
Category: Novel
Narrator: Anthea Greco
Tags: Novel, Adults, LGBT, Contemporary
She didnt know, because I knew she didnt feel the same way and I was scared she would try to, so I hid it and encouraged myself to deny it, like a sickly feeling in your gut that you try to pretend isnt the beginning of food poisoning. Hetty and Ness have been best friends since childhood. Hetty is captivating, the life of the party. Ness is a wallflower, hopelessly in love with her. Leaving Melbourne for the first time to live abroad, they take a room in a share house of creatives in Torontos student quarter. Hetty disappears into barkeeping and nightlife, while Ness drifts aimlessly. But when Ness finds Faith in the art gallery, an intense affair begins. With friends and a job, at last her life starts to make sense. And Hettys starts to fall apart, a mess of bad drugs and bad men. As winter freezes the lakeside city, the dark undercurrents of Hettys characterdangerous obsessions, abusive relationships become stronger. Ness may lose the person she loves more than anyone else in the w
