Beautiful words. Vanessa McCausland. 2021.

Sylvie is a lover of words and a collector of stories, but she has no words for that night at the lighthouse. What happened to cleave her apart from her best friend and soulmate, Kase?

Sylvie yearns to rekindle their deep connection, so when Kase invites her to the wild Tasmania  coast to celebrate her 40th birthday, she accepts - despite the ghosts she must face.

As Sylvie struggles to find her feet among old friends, she bonds with local taxi boat driver Holden. But he is hiding from the world, too.

Through an inscription in an old book, Sylvie and Kase discover their mothers have a history, hidden from their daughters. As they unpick what took place decades earlier, they’re forced to face the rift in their own friendship, and the question of whether it’s ever okay to keep a secret to protect the person you love..