![]() ![]() And she has very carefully arranged everything in her life to accommodate that one pursuit in the hopes that she'll be so absorbed in it, she'll never have to think about what happened to her two years ago. ![]() She avoids answering calls from her disapproving mother. She works nights as a cook at a somewhat dicey cafe. She lives in a messy apartment, which she shares with a Dutch woman named Hannah. She dropped out of university awhile ago for reasons both complicated and painful. As I looked into tracking down a copy, I remembered I'd read very positive reviews on several of my favorite sites, and after checking out Kirsty Eagar's site, it quickly became clear that my best (and fastest and cheapest) shot would be downloading the eBook and going from there. But nothing about the rest of it reels me in and, having read it, this neither looks like how I picture Carly, nor does it really capture the many complexities of what is going on in this novel. I like the title font and color just fine. As far as the cover goes, well, I'm not wild about it. All I can say is, I saw a reference to it somewhere and I got a feeling. But I wasn't really interested until a few days ago, when for some odd reason I started investigating it seriously. ![]() And I vaguely knew that it wasn't really available here in the states. ![]() I knew it was written by an Australian author. Raw Bluehas been skirting the edges of my consciousness for awhile now. ![]()
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