Guilt

- Authors
- Matt Nable
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House Australia
- ISBN
- 9781742537566
- Date
- 2015-03-13
- Size
- 3.94 MB
- Lang
- en
He was glad he existed, ecstatic; he was so close to the edge of a new life, they all were, he and his friends.� Without their parents to tell them yes or no.� It was freedom.� Tommy is in love with Lani.� Lani is going out with Paul.� Paul is having an affair with Julia, and Julia has a crush on Chris.� Life is intoxicating when you're about to turn eighteen and finish school.� But something goes terribly wrong for this group of friends.� One day they have the world at their feet.� The next, they are all divided, destined to carry their own versions of guilt into adulthood.� What unfolds is an agonising, incisive novel about loyalty and jealousy, about the possibilities of youth and the weariness of middle age.� Guilt is a heartbreaking examination of friendship, luck and the elusive nature of redemption.� 'One that you can't put down . . . Nable's characters are shrewdly and finely nuanced.'�Canberra Times 'An intense, rewarding...