an outstanding piece of writing...a powerful novel... Reading TimeFriendship is a slippery notion. We lose friends as we change and our friends don t, or as we form other alliances, or as we betray our friends or are ourselves betrayed In the pearling town of Broome, against the backdrop of World War II, a young man and a young woman fall in love. Hart is the son of a pearling master, Mitsy the d...