"One short, beautiful summer of love, and then a tragedy - and the Vietnam War - will drive four friends apart.
But nothing is straightforward about what has come between them. And nothing is clear, really, until years later, when Nick goes back to where it all happened and trawls through his memory to put the pieces together.
Charles Hall's novel tells a very personal story set in Australia in the rebellious days of the 60s, a decade of upheaval, when one's own journey was intensified by the politics of the world - civil rights, feminism, drugs and, at the heart of the upheaval, the Vietnam War and conscription. It was a time of uproar on every level - families, music, film, relationships and a belief that not only did the world need changing but that ordinary people could change it..." -- Goodreads