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In novels and life - there's power in the words left unsaid.

- Myfanwy Jones

Cool Water by Myfanwy Jones, Hachette

This power is masterfully wielded by Myfanwy Jones in her new novel, Cool Water. In the pages of the pacey book, it's the things she doesn't say that speak the loudest - the blank spaces that say the most. Jones has mastered the art of absence, and the resulting story is a triumph. Set on the banks of Tinaroo Dam in Far North Queensland, two stories unfold, a generation apart. Moving between a year in the mid-1950s and the presentday weekend of a wedding, Cool Water tells one family's story through the eyes of its men and boys.