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Love Like Water by Meme McDonald **When Cathy moves from cattle country to Alice Springs looking for a new start she is challenged by the landscape and the people who populate it.Published 1 April, 2007 
When Cathy moves from cattle country to Alice Springs looking for a new start she is challenged by the landscape and the people who populate it. Taking a job in the local pub after living on the land is just the first challenge as she comes to understand the racial, social and personal problems facing the people in this outback town. Meme MacDonald has beautifully illustrated the landscape and characters’ relationships to one another. Through the language of love between Cathy and Jason (JJ the DJ), the reader is gently led to understand the common ground on which these difficulties can be approached. The adult nature of the novel, with its reference to the lifestyle of people in this harsh environment, makes this story both intense and emotionally charged. While this makes for a great read for adult audiences, young adults may feel distanced from the characters in this novel. Love like Water would be better placed in an adult fiction area in schools, libraries and bookshops. I would highly recommend Love like Water to anyone who cares enough to want an insight into some of the problems facing Australia. Natalie Crawford is the children’s specialist at Dymocks Claremont, Perth This review from Australian Bookseller & Publisher magazine is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2008, Thorpe-Bowker More from Fiction Book Reviews
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