TY  - BOOK
AU  - McCausland,Vanessa
TI  - The beautiful words
SN  - 9781460759585
U1  - A823.4 23/eng/20211203
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Sydney, NSW
PB  - HarperCollins Publishers Australia
KW  - Best friends
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Female friendship
KW  - Betrayal
KW  - Forgiveness
KW  - Family secrets
KW  - Tasmania
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - lcgft
N2  - 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
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