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The Eucalyptus Tree
Synopsis
‘It is an illusion to think that most people are normal, rational and in control of themselves’ Thomas Moore Dark Nights of the soul
When you think you know someone intimately there always lies within an undescovered darkness.
The Eucalyptus Tree is a story of Jealousy ,sex ,Love and lies but above all, a tribute to the enduring qualities of true friendship.
Thrown together in Birdham school for girls, Caroline and Anna became best friends. Anna, left brained, logical and analytical is the perfect antidote for Caroline’s scatty right brained artiness. Sharing homework, boyfriends, secrets and dreams, the two girls are inseperable. Or so they beleive.
Their lives inevitably take very different paths. After a disasterous holiday in Europe the girls grow apart .Caroline finds a job down south in a local department store, broke yet ambitious she dreams of one day becoming an interior designer.
Anna ,blonde, dynamic, beautiful and hard headed, is the Manager of a pretigiuos Australian Steel producer. She seems to have it all and yet is deeply unhappy. The one thing she is searching for she can not seem to find.
When Anna announces her return to the UK Caroline is excited yet concerned are shared memories all they have in common?
Though delighted to meet again, Caroline soon realises that Anna is not the girl she once knew. Her illusion of their past is shattered when Annas’ supressed childhood feelings of rejection, jealousy, resentment and guilt, surface with avengance.
In search of the love she was denied as a child Anna becomes preditory, dangerous, and dilusional and sets about destroying the one thing she holds precous - her friendship with Caroline.
But is their bond strong enough to survive?
This is the first in a series of Novels exploring the complexities of relatioships between friends , families, lovers and spouses.
‘It is an illusion to think that most people are normal, rational and in control of themselves’ Thomas Moore Dark Nights of the soul
When you think you know someone intimately there always lies within an undescovered darkness.
The Eucalyptus Tree is a story of Jealousy ,sex ,Love and lies but above all, a tribute to the enduring qualities of true friendship.
Thrown together in Birdham school for girls, Caroline and Anna became best friends. Anna, left brained, logical and analytical is the perfect antidote for Caroline’s scatty right brained artiness. Sharing homework, boyfriends, secrets and dreams, the two girls are inseperable. Or so they beleive.
Their lives inevitably take very different paths. After a disasterous holiday in Europe the girls grow apart .Caroline finds a job down south in a local department store, broke yet ambitious she dreams of one day becoming an interior designer.
Anna ,blonde, dynamic, beautiful and hard headed, is the Manager of a pretigiuos Australian Steel producer. She seems to have it all and yet is deeply unhappy. The one thing she is searching for she can not seem to find.
When Anna announces her return to the UK Caroline is excited yet concerned are shared memories all they have in common?
Though delighted to meet again, Caroline soon realises that Anna is not the girl she once knew. Her illusion of their past is shattered when Annas’ supressed childhood feelings of rejection, jealousy, resentment and guilt, surface with avengance.
In search of the love she was denied as a child Anna becomes preditory, dangerous, and dilusional and sets about destroying the one thing she holds precous - her friendship with Caroline.
But is their bond strong enough to survive?
This is the first in a series of Novels exploring the complexities of relatioships between friends , families, lovers and spouses.
310 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 25, 2013
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