![]() ![]() Steven leaves the beach house to go on a college road trip with his dad, leaving Belly without her brother as a buffer between her and the Fisher boys. In the present, Jeremiah teaches Belly how to drive a stick shift, since she’ll be turning 16 and getting her license. It hurt Belly’s feelings because it was her first kiss, and she wanted the moment to be shared with someone she really liked, not with her close friend. Jeremiah was, so she flirted a lot with Jeremiah.ĭuring a game of truth or dare, Jeremiah kissed Belly in order to make Taylor jealous. Taylor decided to try to win Conrad’s heart, but Conrad wasn’t receptive to her attention. Belly brought her best female friend, Taylor, to Cousins Beach, and Taylor immediately began flirting with both Fisher boys. From that moment, Belly became a friend that Jeremiah could rely on for support during moments of family tragedy.īelly’s 14th summer threatened to ruin her friendship with Jeremiah, however. Belly remembers that she and Jeremiah bonded the summer when she was 13, because they both overhead Susannah talking to Laurel about her cancer treatments and crying over the possibility of a mastectomy. ![]() Susannah’s health is frail because she went through a bout of breast cancer and chemo treatments. Susannah, who is like a second mother to Belly, is worried about Conrad. Conrad took her to the local boardwalk, which she had hoped was a date, but turned out to be a pretext for him to visit a girl he had a crush on. Since Belly still adores Conrad, it’s hard for her to see him acting so withdrawn.īelly recalls when Conrad first broke her heart. Conrad is acting moodier than usual, and Belly learns that he recently quit football, broke up with his girlfriend and began smoking. Belly has always been in love with Conrad and has always been pals with Jeremiah, but this year she is about to turn 16, and both boys begin to look at her differently.īelly has blossomed into a lovely young woman, but her appearance isn’t the only thing that has changed at Cousins Beach. ![]() Her mother, Laurel, is best friends with the boys’ mother, Susannah, so Belly, her mom and her older brother, Steven, have spent every summer for the past 15 years at the Fishers’ beach house in Cousins Beach. Mild touching on topics of crime, violence, and teen pregnancy, but not in any graphic or profane way.Isabel, nicknamed Belly, has grown up with Conrad and Jeremiah Fisher. I did bump the speed to 1.3x, but this was a nice simmering suspense. The suspense builds gradually, with enough twists along the way to make me doubt my predictions. As the title suggests, the central mystery is whether the 19 year old appearing at his door is really who she claims to be. Several of the month’s free Audible selections feature outstanding female narrators capable of great range in voicing genders, ages, and accents. I very much enjoyed the narrator’s Australian voice. The writing really brought the culture and the characters alive and I learned some new terms, like budgies (Speedos style swimsuits) and milos (chocolate malted drinks). Riding out COVID in the U.S., I found the Australian treatment of it interesting. (I say that with love from the mid-century mark). Nice to see that old folks can star in good fiction too. Here, Don Barlow is a 70s retiree hunkering down in his beachside Australian pad during COVID-19. Action, romance, and horror tend to star young, fit adults in their 20s and 30s, or 40s tops. One of the things I like about the mystery/suspense genre is the age equality in main characters. Slow burning Aussie suspense in the time of COVID ![]()
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