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‘Cherry Beach is a tender and bruising coming-of-age novel. Laura McPhee-Browne’s writing is both poetic and economical, finely attuned to the exhilaration and doom of youth, unfamiliar cities and new relationships.’
JENNIFER DOWN
‘Laura McPhee-Browne’s Cherry Beach is an acute and gripping novel about being made and unmade by first love. In prose reminiscent of Elizabeth Jolley’s, McPhee-Browne portrays the helpless entanglement of two friends in their impossible quest for self-determination. Cherry Beach is a breathtaking debut by a gifted new voice in Australian fiction.’
ELLENA SAVAGE
‘This beautiful novel is tender: tender like a loving touch, and tender like a bruise. Cherry Beach will seduce you with its lush and gorgeous detail and its unguarded openness, and then it will rip your heart out. In its rawness and its yearning, Cherry Beach exquisitely captures the intensity of youth, love, desire and loss.’
EMILY BITTO
‘Like sparkling wine on a sunny afternoon, Cherry Beach goes down easily—and leaves a killer hangover. A vibrant, tender debut from a bright new voice in Australian fiction. I loved every minute of it.’
LAURA ELIZABETH WOOLLETT
‘A promising debut…[Cherry Beach explores] mental health, female friendship and desire, delicately portraying the deep ache of losing the person you’re closest to.’
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Copyright © Laura McPhee-Browne, 2020
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Published by The Text Publishing Company, 2020
Book design by Imogen Stubbs
Cover painting by Emma Currie
Typeset by J&M Typesetting
ISBN: 9781922268501 (paperback)
ISBN: 9781925923117 (ebook)
A catalogue record for this book is available from the National Library of Australia
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