Livistona Love Songs

By Rosaline Riley

‘Imaginative?’ she said, raising her eyebrows. ‘Fiction isn’t necessarily imaginative though, is it? Or even fictitious for that matter.’
I had no idea what she meant.

Lydia, awaiting the arrival in Australia of her boyfriend, finds herself in a small coastal town – Livistona Bay – staying in the childhood home of Pam, a friend of her parents. Here she meets local resident Annie who looks after the property.
Livistona Bay just happens to be one of the locations for Goodbye Creek, a popular Australian soap opera. And it is here in Pam’s house, which is also used for filming purposes, that Lydia meets one of the actors, Clyde.
Reality and fiction begin to merge as Lydia agonises over her relationship with her absent boyfriend, and episodes from Pam and Annie’s past become intertwined with a big, somewhat dark, Goodbye Creek storyline.

A novel about love, loss and longing.