The Briny CafeBy Susan Duncan, Bantam Australia, $32.95.
They say the best fiction writers draw from experience. So when high-flying magazine editor Susan Duncan left the hustle of Sydney to live in a house on Pittwater — accessible only by boat and built for Dorothea Mackellar in 1925 – it’s not much of a stretch to imagine where her latest novel is set.
While poet Dorothea penned I Love A Sunburnt Country, Susan inspired the nation with her first bookSalvation Creek, in which she told of retreating to an idyllic home on the outskirts of Sydney after the sudden death of her husband and brother within three days of each other.
Her new novelThe Briny Cafédraws on that new lifestyle, telling the romantic — and mysterious — tales of the characters drawn to life on the water.
Interspersed with quirky news snippets from theCook’s Basin News(the one-page newsletter for the community), you’ll fall in love with this gentle, character-filled tale of life on the edge.
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