Pieces of sky trinity doyle6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() The only people Lucy feels she can turn to are her estranged best friend from primary school, Steffi, and Steffi’s cousin Evan, who’s just blown in from Sydney and has problems of his own. Even Cam’s best mate, Ryan, has left town. Her Auntie Deb, up from Newcastle, just doesn’t get it. Her mum has completely shut down and hardly ever gets out of bed, and her dad doesn’t even notice when she stays out all night. She can’t find her way back into her old routine or enjoy hanging out with her old friends whose lives revolve around swimming. ‘Today school goes back and the routine of train, study, train can start again.’ Only Lucy-state champion backstroker-can’t make herself get in the water. ‘Today should feel right,’ she tells herself. Lucy’s brother, Cam, has been dead eight weeks and it’s time Lucy started piecing her life back together. Despite the grim irony that the ocean which smothered his lungs should cover him in death, it suited him. ![]() It was beautiful, if such a thing can be-the waves of the ocean, gradients of green to blue mixed with the white of sea foam. ![]() ![]() Margot McGovern reviews Pieces of Sky by Trinity Doyle. ![]()
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