Better Reading Preview: Everywhere We Look by Martine Kropkkowski

Better Reading Preview: Everywhere We Look by Martine Kropkkowski

A year after a tragic incident splintered their friendship, three women travel to Marcoy, a regional town, in attempt to reconnect.

Melissa has slept much of the past twelve months away, and she hopes this weekend will help her re-emerge from the depression she’s been living with.

Bridie worries that she is not a good enough mother. She worries about most things, really, but she’s dealing with things just fine. At least that’s what she tells herself.

What Cassandra really needs is a break, so she’s come away to forget it all, to enjoy a cab sav and an open fire and the company of her long-lost friends.

This weekend is about being together, about enjoying their friendship the way they used to, while not—at any cost—having to address the reason for the distance between them. But when they witness a young girl being coerced into a car by a man she fears, they are forced to reckon with the chasm of grief and trauma that’s kept them apart.

Everywhere We Look explores domestic abuse, the dynamics of female friendship, and the danger that can hide in plain sight.

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23 October 2024

Your Preview Verdict: Everywhere We Look by Martine Kropkowski

    Publisher details

    Everywhere We Look
    Author
    Martine Kropkowski
    Publisher
    Ultimo Press
    Genre
    Fiction
    Released
    01 October, 2024
    ISBN
    9781761153747

    Synopsis

    A year after a tragic incident splintered their friendship, three women travel to Marcoy, a regional town, in attempt to reconnect.

    Melissa has slept much of the past twelve months away, and she hopes this weekend will help her re-emerge from the depression she’s been living with.

    Bridie worries that she is not a good enough mother. She worries about most things, really, but she’s dealing with things just fine. At least that’s what she tells herself.

    What Cassandra really needs is a break, so she’s come away to forget it all, to enjoy a cab sav and an open fire and the company of her long-lost friends.

    This weekend is about being together, about enjoying their friendship the way they used to, while not—at any cost—having to address the reason for the distance between them. But when they witness a young girl being coerced into a car by a man she fears, they are forced to reckon with the chasm of grief and trauma that’s kept them apart.

    Everywhere We Look explores domestic abuse, the dynamics of female friendship, and the danger that can hide in plain sight.

    Martine Kropkowski
    About the author

    Martine Kropkowski

    Martine Kropkowski has worked as a solider, journalist and academic. Her short fiction and essays on literature and culture have appeared in Griffith Review, Overland and The Conversation. She is a sessional academic at The University of Queensland where she is completing a PhD. Everywhere We Look is Martine’s first novel.

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