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Cherise Saywell Cherise Saywell i(A139134 works by)
Born: Established: Lismore, Lismore - Goonellabah, Lismore area, Far Northeast NSW, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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1 3 y separately published work icon Twitcher Cherise Saywell , North Sydney : Random House Australia , 2013 Z1928206 2013 single work novel 'Grief, loss and guilt are enormous burdens for a whole family to carry. A tern will fly to the moon, to live its life in summer...I suppose I'd like to have a little bit of that. It's boom time in sixteen-year-old Kenno's coastal holiday town. Tourists are buying and building and developing property, and easy money seems to be everywhere. Even birds flock there to nest on the sand and on the cliffs, out to the islands. But for those who live in the holiday town all year round, there is bleakness too, and Kenno's family, haunted by a terrible loss, struggle to get by. When the family is evicted from their home, Kenno figures they're entitled to a little easy money of their own, and that it's his job to makes things right. Believing it could go a long way to healing them in all their separate ways. Kenno finds a beautiful house and forms a plan to get the money for it. But the closer he gets to the money, the more complicated things become, and when he involves his sister in his plan, who likes to test the world and goes looking for danger, things move quickly beyond his control.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 4 y separately published work icon Desert Fish Cherise Saywell , North Sydney : Vintage Australia , 2011 Z1767663 2011 single work novel

'"Gilly. You know we'll die here, don't you?"

'Pete's eyes are glazed and red-rimmed. "Yes."

'"Aren't you afraid?"

'"No, I'm not," I tell him.

'"I can't believe you," he says. "I don't believe you're not afraid."

'He wants us to be joined now, at this moment. He doesn't want to die alone. But I mean it. I'm not afraid.

'Gilly lives in a drought-ridden small town in 1970s Australia. She's left school but hasn't found a job, it's always hot and life seems a little pointless.

'Then Pete arrives. Golden-skinned with a kind smile and relaxed attitude, he boards with Gilly and her family and breaks the tension between her philandering father and anxious-to-please mother. Gilly can't help but fall in love with him and one sultry night, she gets what she wants.

'A few weeks later, Pete disappears and Gilly finds out she's pregnant. She wants Pete so badly she'll do what it takes to find him and keep him, at any cost.' (From the publisher's website.)
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