My Candlelight Novel

This beautifully written novel explores 21-year-old Sophie’s relationships in all their surprising and sensuous complexities. Sophie is sister to Kate, narrator of the award-winning Secret Scribbled Notebooks.The house is a crumbling two-storey weatherboard place, a guest house, of the cheapest and shabbiest kind. But there is something magical and other-worldly about it. Because it’s on the river, in that place where earth and water meet, it sits on a threshold, a margin, a place of change. And it was in this muddy, watery place where transformations are said to occur that I dreamed I might one day be transformed.

And so this is my story. I will make it something after my own heart, tender and dark, a little candlelight novel, started this late summer night as my baby daughter sleeps in the big bed in the corner, and my sister Kate leans thoughtful and sleepless against the railing of the dark verandah outside

A sensuous, evocative companion to the award-winning and highly acclaimed Secret Scribbled Notebooks.