OUR REVIEW
Caro and Danny are destined to be together. Two only children, growing up in rural Australia, spending hours at the waterhole, catching tadpoles and frogs, swimming, drawing and, later, becoming lovers. With two busy parents, Caro is closer to Danny’s mother, Diane, than her own.
But when they are in Year 11, Diane dies. Burdened with Danny’s grief, Caro doesn’t know what to do with her own. They finish school and move into a flat together, just like they’d always planned. Caro is at uni and Danny, whose marks suffered in Year 12, eventually gets into a Fine Arts course. But he becomes erratic, drinking, taking drugs, skipping work and sometimes going missing for days. And Caro, who knows she should leave, finds it hard to let go of her dreams and the promise she made to Diane to look after Danny and his father.
This is a stunning novel, beautiful and bittersweet, capturing the innocence of childhood, the beauty of the waterhole, the unfurling of young love, the deep grief of loss, the farewelling of once-cherished dreams. Caro must let go of people and places that once moored her so that she can find a new path.
Reviewed by Melinda Woledge
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