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'The south-west coast is the kind of place people escape to. Unless you have lived there all your life, in which case, you long to get away.

'Rosie and Cray chuck in their city jobs for Margaret River while Liza, Ferg and Sam have been there forever, working the family farm. Under pressure from developers the families unite against change. But when a natural disaster strikes, change is inevitable.' (Publication summary)

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  • Dedication: for Mum and Dad

  • Epigraph:

    The water in our blood will be cloud one day.

    And was glacier aeons ago.

    –from The Drowner, Robert Drewe

  • The events described in this book have their climax in a fictional reimagining of the Gracetown cliff collapse, which occurred at Huzza’s Beach on 27 September 1996, and claimed the lives of nine people from a local school. To date, the Gracetown cliff collapse is Western Australia’s worst natural disaster. (Source: publisher's website)

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    • North Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: Fremantle Press , 2014 .
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      Extent: 242p.
      Note/s:
      • Published September 2014
      ISBN: 9781922089649 (ebook), 9781922089632 (paperback)
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Related Works

Book Bite : The Break Deb Fitzpatrick , 2014 extract novel (The Break)
— Appears in: Good Reading , September 2014; (p. 28-29)
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Works about this Work

Review : The Break Gretchen Shirm , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 366 2014; (p. 70)
— Review of The Break Deb Fitzpatrick , 2014 single work novel
Review : The Break Katie Haydon , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Books + Publishing , vol. 94 no. 1 2014; (p. 21)
— Review of The Break Deb Fitzpatrick , 2014 single work novel
Review : The Break Katie Haydon , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Books + Publishing , vol. 94 no. 1 2014; (p. 21)
— Review of The Break Deb Fitzpatrick , 2014 single work novel
Review : The Break Gretchen Shirm , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 366 2014; (p. 70)
— Review of The Break Deb Fitzpatrick , 2014 single work novel
VIEW ALL WORKS ABOUT (2)
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