The Sun Road

by HannahMacDonald (Author)

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  2004

  $3.45

  Starting in the 1970s and spanning three decades, this moving novel begins with a tragedy that reverberates through the lives of two neighbouring families. Growing up in 1970s suburbia, Beth Standing knew her home was different from other people's. What she didn't understand was why. Instead she sought solace in the noisy, energetic household of the Frederick family across the street, and her childhood friendship with Dan Frederick. Almost twenty years later, Beth is reunited with Dan and his family. But relationships have shifted; nothing is quite what it seems. Embarking on an affair that will shatter the hard-won serenity of both families, Beth and Dan come face to face with their pasts, and with the precarious nature of happiness. It is a journey that will ultimately lead Beth to the shocking truth behind her relationship with her mother, and the thirty-year-old tragedy that has shaped all their lives.

• Used

  Paperback
  2003

  $3.45

  When, after eighteen years, thirty-year-old Beth meets her childhood friend and neighbour, Dan, she is horrified to feel a strong physical attraction between them. Is it simply because they offer each other a sentimental link to the past or is there more to it than that? Whatever the answer, Beth can't allow it to develop. As one friend says to her, 'It's not ironic, it's sick. You are not going out with the son of a man you had a two-year affair with.' But prickly, self-contained Beth knows it's too late and so begins an affair that will bring Beth and Dan face to face with their pasts, with the choices their parents made and with the precarious nature of happiness. A journey that will ultimately lead to Beth discovering the shocking truth behind her unhappy relationship with her mother and a thirty-year-old tragedy that has shaped all their lives. Characterisation that never misses a beat makes this an astonishingly assured debut novel.