The December Boys
Michael Noonan
Paperback
(University of Queensland Press/Barnes and Noble, March 15, 2007)
When a group of close friends leaves the dusty outback orphanage where thy've grown up for a summer holiday together at the coast, their furture is full of possibilities. But the chance that one of them, just one, might gain a real family to live with calls everything they thought they knew about themselves and each other into question. Because the future is as unknown as the ocean's depths. And family comes in many forms...