Kirsty Eagar grew up on a Queensland cattle property. Raw Blue is a powerful debut novel about a teenage girl recovering from her painful past, set in the surfing culture of Sydney's northern beaches. Can life become more than what has happened to her? Can she find the courage to be happy? Then Ryan learns the truth and she has to face the things she is running from. But he wants to get to know Carly and he is prepared to stick around through the hard stuff to do it.Ĭarly's layers of hurt and defensiveness begin to dissolve. With a criminal record Ryan might seem like a bad choice. The only time-out she gets is in the ocean, catching waves.Īnd then Carly meets Ryan, a local at the break in his mid-twenties. She has never told anyone and anger is eating her away. She keeps to herself, lies when she has to, and, most of all, she tries not to think about what happened to her two years ago at Schoolies week. She works nights in a Manly café and spends her days surfing. I know that I'm meant to stay on the surface and be happy.Ĭarly, a quiet and wary 19-year-old surfer, has dropped out of uni and cut ties with her family. I forget about the underbelly of things, my secrets, and I feel easy and free. Seeing that glittering skin always tightens my throat with joy. The ocean is a vivid emerald colour and the wind ruffles the wave faces so that they shatter the sunlight like glass.
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