The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See

The Island of Sea Women by Lisa SeeThe beautiful novel of female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane. Mi ja and Young sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village's all female diving collective, led by Young sook's mother. As the girls take up

As he does the rounds

sex and dating are changing - for better or worse

battles with drug addiction and stints in prison

burning rivers

How can you love your body when everything around you tells you you're inadequate

this is what she tells her parents

The media descends on Riversend and Martin is now the one in the spotlight

Suddenly Ophelia finds herself thrust into the spotlight- promoted to vice-storyteller by Farouk

and to meet more Aussie characters

seminal work about co-opted beliefs when European missionaries encountered Australian Aboriginals

early Europeans commented again and again that the land looked like a park

But she arrives to find a number of strange and unsettling changes