The Reef

Synopsis

Di Morrissey is Australia's most popular female novelist: a doyenne of Australian writing. - The Age A bestselling title of 2004: over 100,000 copies in print. Secrets, emotions and dangers collide on the Great Barrier Reef. On a small coral cay on the Great Barrier Reef two communities come together in an uneasy alliance: a tourist resort and a scientific research station. At first glance, the island is a sexy resort, a naturalist's dream, a diver's delight. But the island holds secrets and dangers as Jennifer Towse soon discovers.When world-famous Isobel Belitas arrives, Jennifer learns to see the world - above and below the sea - very differently. Isobel also teaches her to come to terms with her obsessive mother, as well as her disintegrating marriage. But no one, not even investigative journalist Tony Adams, could have prepared Jennifer for the stunning revelations of what is really happening on this island paradise... Full of the sights, sounds and smells of tropical north Queensland ! the story plunges forward with all the impetus of a wave crashing on the beach, and the reader is carried - joyfully -- along with it. -Travelscene International. Di Morrissey writes with a sense of social, or in this case environmental, conscience. -The Age