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Five brilliant and ambitious friends. Where has life taken them 20 years on?
′should be welcomed with the excitement that greets the best Australian novelists working today′ THE AUSTRALIAN
Old friendships are expected to maintain their shape despite distance, lovers, careers, new friends.
But 20 years is a long time. Ava is an internationally acclaimed novelist who carries with her a lifetime of secrets. Helen, a brilliant and dedicated molecular biologist, is faced with unexpected moral dilemmas as she finds herself drawn into bioterrorism research. Conrad is a philosopher with a popular media profile and a desire for a much younger woman. And Jack, whose career has stalled in the light of his long unrequited love for Ava, is a scholar of the history and culture of Islam. It is Ava′s husband, Harry, a man for whom the others can barely conceal their disdain, who has drawn them back to Melbourne where they first met at university.
As they deal with the reality of their present lives and their memories of the past, none will be unchanged by the reunion. And not everyone will survive. Andrea Goldsmith has created a story of love, power, friendship and betrayal that is as gripping as it is exquisitely insightful.
′looks deep into the human heart and delivers an experience that is moving and profound′ SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
′With an astute and unsparing intelligence, Andrea Goldsmith conveys the eroticism and the excitement of ideas, and demonstrates that the mind is not only the sexiest organ but the most fragile one′Janette Turner Hospital
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