![]() ![]() Married for only ten months, Eva is totally inconsolable. A bright, educated midwife who clearly loves her career, and her life, Eva (like many faithful wives) may have actually underestimated her husband, Jackson, who as the novel opens, has been swept out to sea while fishing off the coast of Dorset. In the wild, beautiful, untamed landscape of Wattleboon Island (actually Bruny Island, just south of Hobart), Clarke explores the notion of secrets and betrayal, how a set of precarious circumstances will eventuality bring Eva, Clarke’s embattled heroine, to the brink of tragedy-and sanity. ![]() ![]() With most of the action set on the island state of Tasmania (my home state), A Single Breath is a story that literally takes your breath away. Her technique of inserting a mystery (usually a character’s disappearance) into an exotic locale, far from the shores of her beloved UK, always makes her works compelling, adding depth and excitement to what might otherwise be a pedestrian narrative. Book review: Lucy Clarke's *A Single Breath*Īn author who has been gaining my interest for quite some time, Clarke is growing in popularity. ![]()
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