**How did I get here?** *He ripped back the zip, his heart pounding as red dust trickled in and landed on his face. He stood, brushing the dust from his eyes, a sense of vertigo launching itself up his spine. One step from the swag and his eyes snapped open....
**How did I get here?**
*He ripped back the zip, his heart pounding as red dust trickled in and landed on his face. He stood, brushing the dust from his eyes, a sense of vertigo launching itself up his spine. One step from the swag and his eyes snapped open. He started to lean into a void. Over a cliff.*
Fifteen years after college graduation, four friends reconnect to keep a long-ago promise and go on a trip of a lifetime in the Australian Outback.
Eliza needs to disconnect from her high-powered fashion job to consider the CEO position she's just been offered. Lincoln hopes to rekindle a past relationship and escape from another one. Bree looks forward to a fun getaway from home and her deeply buried disappointments. Andy wants to disappear from the mess he's made of his life-possibly forever.
Dropped at a campsite in the middle of nowhere, the friends quickly discover they aren't the same people they once were, and they begin to confront hard truths about one another-and themselves. Then a bizarre storm sweeps across their camp, scattering them across the desert. Wondering if they are part of some strange escape game, each of the friends meets a guide to help them find exactly what they need: purpose, healing, courage, and redemption.
But they've already traveled far down the road of life and course-correcting to become the people they were meant to be won't be easy.
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**How did I get here?** *He ripped back the zip, his heart pounding as red dust trickled in and landed on his face. He stood, brushing the dust from his eyes, a sense of vertigo launching itself up his spine. One step from the swag and his eyes snapped open....
**How did I get here?**
*He ripped back the zip, his heart pounding as red dust trickled in and landed on his face. He stood, brushing the dust from his eyes, a sense of vertigo launching itself up his spine. One step from the swag and his eyes snapped open. He started to lean into a void. Over a cliff.*
Fifteen years after college graduation, four friends reconnect to keep a long-ago promise and go on a trip of a lifetime in the Australian Outback.
Eliza needs to disconnect from her high-powered fashion job to consider the CEO position she's just been offered. Lincoln hopes to rekindle a past relationship and escape from another one. Bree looks forward to a fun getaway from home and her deeply buried disappointments. Andy wants to disappear from the mess he's made of his life-possibly forever.
Dropped at a campsite in the middle of nowhere, the friends quickly discover they aren't the same people they once were, and they begin to confront hard truths about one another-and themselves. Then a bizarre storm sweeps across their camp, scattering them across the desert. Wondering if they are part of some strange escape game, each of the friends meets a guide to help them find exactly what they need: purpose, healing, courage, and redemption.
But they've already traveled far down the road of life and course-correcting to become the people they were meant to be won't be easy.
Where the Road Bends$32.99
Koorong code559583
ISBN9780785230724
Pages304
PublisherThomas Nelson Publishers
Publication date21 October 2020
Dimensions26 x 138 x 189mm
Weight0.308kg
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Thank you to Thomas Nelson Publishers for an advanced reader copy. Like David's Rawlings' first novel 'The Baggage Handler', he has again tackled various spiritual and emotional issues using the fiction tool of parable. I have heard David Rawlings describe his work as magic realism, a type of fiction that exists just outside the boundaries of mainstream fiction. Rawlings is a good writer, as evidenced by his winning the prestigious international Christie Award, but this type of fiction is not for everyone. If you like to have a book that challenges your thinking, and draws the reader to a deeper look within, then this book is for you. Four old college friends come together to fulfill their pledge of fifteen years earlier to meet and go on an adventure. They choose a trip to the Australian outback. The character set up is engaging, and their introduction to the outback is amusing, but when they are mysteriously separated, the pace of the novel slows considerably as we engage with one character at a time, alone and struggling to find out the key to their own personal mystery. As an Australian reader, I was a little alarmed at how dry, desolate and dusty Australia appeared to the international travelers. If you are an international reader, be assured Australia has many well watered and magnificent rural and mountainous landscapes. It isn't all red dust. Also, if as a reader, you're expecting plot, you may be disappointed, as this is more a character study. Great for a discussion
