Gravity

Saturday night. Nowheresville. Adam Prince is smouldering. He has lived his whole life in Splitters Creek and knows every face at the hotel. At eighteen, the lack of air in his small-town home, a leaky old family and the rising damp of a future without hope are choking the fire of his life. Adam needs to escape. To fly. To break free of a life dogged by sorrow. But no matter how far he runs, will there always be gravity pulling him back? Eighteen-year-old Adam Prince has lived his whole life from Splitters Creek. He was born in the back seat of the wagon on the serpentine road home from Orbost. He drinks beer and rum and, like his father (Hugh), when he finishes school, he'll work at the sawmill. Adam Prince is smouldering. A leaky old family, the lack of air in his small-town home and the rising damp of a future without hope have choked the fire of his life