{"title":"Madelaine Lucas","description":"\u003cp\u003eMadelaine Lucas is a compelling voice in contemporary literature, known for her evocative storytelling and introspective narratives. With her debut novel, \u003cem\u003eThirst for Salt\u003c\/em\u003e, she delves into the complexities of human relationships, capturing both the tenderness and tumult that often accompany them. Her writing is marked by a lyrical quality and a deep empathy for her characters, making her stories both immersive and thought-provoking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLucas's work primarily falls under the category of General Fiction, appealing to readers who relish character-driven novels and introspective plots. Her narratives often explore themes of love, longing, and self-discovery, resonating with those who appreciate nuanced stories about the intricacies of personal connections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDiscover Madelaine Lucas's profound storytelling prowess through her collection, and journey into tales that beautifully encapsulate the highs and lows of the human experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"thirst-for-salt-by-madelaine-lucas-9781761066931","title":"Thirst for Salt","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'A hypnotic story of lost love and the melancholy nature of memory... a remarkable new literary voice.' - Rebecca Starford, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Imitator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A love affair so richly and attentively imagined it carries the grace and gravity of memory itself.' - Leslie Jamison, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Empathy Exams\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt's hard to remember now that I was once that girl, lying in the sand in my red swimsuit and swimming late into the day. Sharkbait,\u003c\/i\u003e he called me.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe first sees him in the water: a local man almost twenty years her senior. Adrift in the summer after finishing university, a young woman is on holiday with her mother in an isolated Australian coastal town. Finding herself pulled to Jude, the man in the water, she begins losing herself in the simple, seductive rhythms of his everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs their relationship deepens, life at Sailors Beach offers her the stability she has been craving as the daughter of two drifters - a loving but impulsive mother and an itinerant father. But the arrival of Maeve, a friend from Jude's past, threatens to rock their fragile, newfound intimacy. And when she witnesses something she doesn't fully understand, she finds herself questioning everything - about Jude, about herself, about the life she has and the one she wants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA magnetic and unforgettable story of desire and its complexities, and a powerful reckoning with memory, loss and longing, Madelaine Lucas's debut novel reveals with stunning, sensual immediacy the way the past can hold us in its thrall, shaping who we are and what we love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'This novel is a beautiful, melancholy tide. I felt inexorably pulled to it, and by it. Lucas is a brilliant conjurer of emotional and bodily longing. I felt, while avidly turning the pages, that briny tightness of the skin, as though I'd sat in the hot sun after an ocean swim. \u003ci\u003eThirst for Salt\u003c\/i\u003e is a sensuous, visceral debut.' - Heidi Julavits, author of \u003ci\u003eWomen in Clothes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThirst for Salt\u003c\/i\u003e is an exquisite, magnificent gem of a book. While Madelaine Lucas's style is delicate and spare, her story is one of searing power - the story of a young woman's exploration of the fraught, often dangerous, forces of love, motherhood, art, and wilderness. \u003ci\u003eThirst for Salt\u003c\/i\u003e is a revelation, with a quietly radical view of female desire and independence, and Lucas is a brilliant new voice - compassionate, daring, heartbreaking. It's no surprise that she is also an acclaimed musician, for this debut novel is full of verve and beauty, and it stays with you like a charged, lingering melody.' - Rebecca Godfrey, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eUnder the Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Madelaine Lucas's \u003ci\u003eThirst for Salt\u003c\/i\u003e gripped me immediately, with the tender acuity of its voice and the propulsive electricity of the relationship at its core: a love affair so richly and attentively imagined it carries the grace and gravity of memory itself. It's a novel whose momentum emerges not from melodrama but from the primal mysteries of human intimacy: How do people come together and come apart? Every once in a while, a novel enters my life that I know is destined to become part of my bloodstream. \u003ci\u003eThirst for Salt\u003c\/i\u003e is one of those novels and I'm so excited to think of it finding its way to readers who will be changed by it.' - Leslie Jamison, author of \u003ci\u003eMake It Scream, Make It Burn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46534127780076,"sku":"9781761066931","price":35.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781761066931.jpg?v=1749520258"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/madelaine-lucas.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}