Dreaming South Terrace: A Novel by Bruce Menzies

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Moisture damage to the right tail corner of the first 60 pages. All pages are separated but there is a wobble to the front of the book. Small mark on right foredge.

This novel explores the evolution of a close-knit group of baby boomers. We are taken back to 1990 when the port of Fremantle in Western Australia has morphed from 'shabby backwater to bohemian chic'.

Eight-year-old Amity tags along each week with her parents to Drifters Cafe. Against a backdrop of change, at home and abroad, her parents and their friends discuss their lives and the world at large.

Meanwhile, at an adjoining table, old Winnie tunes in to the conversations around her and reflects on her past, with all its joys and sorrows.

Fast forward 25 years. Amity is now a historian, working on a narrative about her community. Using her parents and their group as her guinea pigs, Amity re-fashions their memories, aided by the notebooks of the long-departed Winnie.

Dreaming South Terrace shines a light on the hearts and minds of its cast of characters, united in their love affair with the port city and the whiff of caffeine. (publisher blurb)