McCausland, Vanessa, <br/><br/>
The beautiful words / 
Vanessa McCausland. 
 - 360 pages ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Sylvie is a lover of words and a collector of stories, only she has lost her own. She has no words for that night at the lighthouse when their lives changed forever. What happened to cleave her apart from her best friend and soulmate, Kase? Sylvie yearns to rekindle their deep connection, so when Kase invites her to the wild Tasmanian coast to celebrate her 40th birthday, Sylvie accepts - despite the ghosts she must face. As Sylvie struggles to find her feet among old friends,she bonds with local taxi boat driver Holden. But he is hiding from the world, too.Through an inscription in an old book, Sylvie and Kase discover their mothers have a history, hidden from their daughters. As they unpick what took place decades before, they're forced to face the rift in their own friendship,and the question of whether it's ever okay to keep a secret to protect the person you love. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781460759585 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Best friends--Fiction.<br/>Female friendship--Fiction.<br/>Betrayal--Fiction.<br/>Forgiveness--Fiction.<br/>Family secrets--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Tasmania--Fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Australian fiction.<br/>Domestic fiction.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>A823.4