My Account
Log in Registration
All
Cart
Highlights
Fiction Books
Non-Fiction Books
Children's Books
Rare Books
Music
DVD & Blu-Ray
Video Games
Category
Wishlists
Cart
All
Free Shipping in the UK
Trustpilot
Proud to be B-Corp

Thirst for Salt Madelaine Lucas

Thirst for Salt By Madelaine Lucas

Thirst for Salt by Madelaine Lucas

Reviews:
£6.90
New RRP £9.99
Condition - Like New
Only 1 left
Like New£6.90Very Good£6.30Well Read£5.70New£9.49

Summary

A gorgeously written novel set over the course of one life-changing summer in an isolated Australian coastal town

Thirst for Salt Summary

Thirst for Salt by Madelaine Lucas

A Bustle, LitHub, Debutiful, and NYLON Most Anticipated Book of 2023

A Goodreads Buzziest Book of the New Year

'A love affair so richly and attentively imagined it carries the grace and gravity of memory itself.' Leslie Jamison

Our narrator is twenty-four years old when she and her mother arrive in the tiny coastal town of Sailors Beach. Their holiday, she hopes, will be a pause between her life as a student and whatever happens next. Summer stretches before her: unplanned, full of possibility. And into this space walks Jude. Finding herself pulled to this man twenty years her senior she begins losing herself in the simple, seductive rhythms of his everyday life.

Thirteen years later, she happens across a photo of Jude with a child. A photo that leaves her questioning choices she has made for herself. A photo that brings back memories of a summer that changed her forever.

A magnetic story of the complexities of desire, and a powerful reckoning with memory, loss and longing, Madelaine Lucas' debut novel reveals, with stunning, sensual immediacy the way the past can hold us in its thrall, shaping who we are and what we love.

'A mesmerizing portrait of a romance with graceful, seductive writing.' Bustle

Thirst for Salt Reviews

'Lush and gorgeous... A delicious read, beautifully written and emotionally satisfying.'

-- New York Times

'Thirst for Salt gripped me immediately, with the tender acuity of its voice and the propulsive electricity of the relationship at its core.'

-- Leslie Jamison, author of The Recovering

'A sensuous, visceral debut.'

-- Heidi Julavits, author of The Folded Clock

'Thirst For Salt is an exquisite, magnificent gem of a book. While Madelaine Lucas's style is delicate and spare, her story is one of searing power - the story of a young woman's exploration of the fraught, often dangerous, forces of love, motherhood, art, and wilderness. Thirst For Salt is a revelation, with a quietly radical view of female desire and independence, and Lucas is a brilliant new voice - compassionate, daring, heartbreaking. It's no surprise that she is also an acclaimed musician, for this debut novel is full of verve and beauty, and it stays with you like a charged, lingering melody.'

-- Rebecca Godfrey, author of The Torn Skirt

'A mesmerizing portrait of a romance with graceful, seductive writing... This novel has a sea glass quality - timeworn, beautiful, worth holding onto.'

-- Bustle

'Luscious and melancholy... Sensual and electric.'

-- Foreword Reviews (starred review)

'Lucas' meditation on relationships is masterful... [Her] portrayal of love and desire exerts a wonderful pull.'

-- Kirkus Reviews

'Intelligent... Lucas keenly captures the relationship's slow erosion, as well as the narrator's ability to make sense of her past while looking back on it. The author's psychological acuity will keep readers piqued.'

-- Publishers Weekly

'Lucas is a wonderful writer.'

-- LitHub

'Captivating... This debut novel about a long-ago love affair revels in the lyrical language that describes its rugged landscape and the emotional intensity of new love.'

-- Shelf Awareness

'Seductive and tender... An engrossing page-turner.'

-- Debutiful

'A sensual coming-of-age novel.'

-- NYLON

'A hypnotic story of lost love and the melancholy nature of memory... A remarkable new literary voice.'

-- Rebecca Starford, author of The Imitator

'Outstanding... It is, quite simply, one of the most compelling and beautifully crafted books I've ever read. Every page is brimming with raw emotion and it's so evocative, so vivid, so richly imagined that at times it feels as if you are looking back on your own story.'

-- The Bookbag

About Madelaine Lucas

Madelaine Lucas was born in Melbourne and is currently based in Brooklyn, New York. She is a senior editor of the literary annual NOON, and a graduate of the fiction MFA programme at Columbia University. Her essays and interviews have appeared in publications including Paris Review Daily, The Believer and Literary Hub, and her fiction has been awarded Australia's Elizabeth Jolley Prize. She teaches workshops for adults and young people in creative writing programs at Columbia University and Catapult.

Additional information

GOR013309606
9780861546497
0861546490
Thirst for Salt by Madelaine Lucas
Madelaine Lucas
Used - Like New
Paperback
Oneworld Publications
2023-05-04
336
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

Customer Reviews - Thirst for Salt