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That summer

THIRST FOR SALT, by Madelaine Lucas (Allen & Unwin $36.99) is out on April 4. There is sensual pathos and emotional purity in the vivid, wistful remembrance of lost first love captured in Madelaine Lucas’ debut novel, Thirst for Salt.

The nameless narrator has returned to her nomadic mother’s home in New South Wales’ Blue Mountains after years of living and

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