Night Beach
by:
Kirsty Eagar (author)
Imagine there is someone you like so much that just thinking about them leaves you desperate and reckless. You crave them in a way that's not rational, not right, and you're becoming somebody you don't recognise, and certainly don't respect, but you don't even care. And this person you like is...
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Imagine there is someone you like so much that just thinking about them leaves you desperate and reckless. You crave them in a way that's not rational, not right, and you're becoming somebody you don't recognise, and certainly don't respect, but you don't even care. And this person you like is unattainable. Except for one thing . . . He lives downstairs. Abbie has three obsessions. Art. The ocean. And Kane. But since Kane's been back, he's changed. There's a darkness shadowing him that only Abbie can see. And it wants her in its world.A Gothic story about the very dark things that feed the creative process, from the winner of the 2010 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for young adult fiction.There are images in this novel that take my breath away, dialogue that I envy and one of the most achingly real protagonists I've come across for a long while.' Melina Marchetta
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B00AMH0O0W
Publish date: April 26th 2012
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 299
Edition language: English
Night Beach is a very intense book, unsettling and creepy at times. I was pulled into the story but found the main character a bit hard to take. Abbie, a 17 year old girl on the verge of leaving adolescence, is the protagonist of the story. She has a crush on her step-cousin Kane, who has been livin...
"a sailor went to sea sea seato see wat he culd see see seeand all that he culd see see seewas the botum of the deep blue sea sea seaI bin down to the botum of the sea and I sed whois this who wants to cum down the botum with me?who is this?A B C no noA B EAbbeeHelow Abbee"I can divide my experience...
Yep, this was creepy.I'm a huge fan of Australian lit and I always get a kick out of reading Australian authors because it's different than the usual, and this did not disappoint. Kirsty Eagar's writing paints a picture and sets the scene right before your eyes. I loved that. My palms were sweating,...
Rating: 2.5 Stars I read this book with Jasprit from The Reader's Den for a read-along and honestly, if it hadn't been for the fact that I had to read three chapters every day, I would have given up on this one a looooong time ago. Night Beach is, in many ways, the perfect October read. It opens up ...
Night Beach was a book with so much potential but just fell way short for me, having previously devoured Eagar’s Raw Blue, I went into Night Beach with really high expectations. From Raw Blue I knew Eagar had the knack for creating a raw, achy and intense read, from just reading one of her books I k...