Lesbian for a Year
Affirm Press, $29.95 pb, 235 pp
Memoir
Lesbian for a Year by Brooke Hemphill
by Crusader Hillis •
Brooke Hemphill knows hers was not meant to be an ordinary existence, yet by her early twenties she is engaged and planning the perfect wedding – with the wrong guy. She breaks it off and moves in with a married man. He, too, is wrong for her. She works on an island resort and falls for another, but he takes off for Europe. She travels to the United States and works on a cruise ship. Life is a continual bender of booze and drugs, until she falls pregnant and returns to Melbourne.
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