Thirst for Salt

Gentle and dreamy, captivating and lustrous. At once burning with desire and fierce longing, whilst thick with a sweet and melancholic nostalgia.

We follow a woman reminiscing the love affair of her twenty fourth year. Spellbound by an older man, the stinging vulnerability of her youthfulness in the shadow of his steadfast composure, impenetrability. Through this, Lucas also contemplates motherhood, the gift of female friendship, the traces of our girlhood which are scattered in all the relationships we have.

‘It never really goes away, the longing for the life not lived, because isn't that part of how we come to know ourselves too? Through what we lack as much as what we have, all we dream but do not hold. Some desires have no resolution.'

The best way I can think to describe this book is if Folklore and Evermore had a long lost sister set in an Australian coastal town. Exquisite with prose and rich with imagery.