Cloudless

It’s a still, hot summer in Perth, heat shimmering off the city’s glass buildings. Not much to do but surrender to the cool of Beatty Park’s swimming pool. The locals are out in force: teenagers flirting, even the rag-tag kids from the refuge. 

But something is moving amid all the stillness--a hidden snake sliding through shadows. It’s moving through lives and connecting them with its sonar trembles: Auntie, in town with Jerome to find the kid’s runaway mum; Kevin, tired of his bus route, dealing with raucous kids and bottlenecks and a city that seems to be growing hostile; Karri and his other-worldly sister Bat Girl; Jackie and her sisters, sharing smokes by the pool. 
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In this exquisite, lyrical verse novel by acclaimed playwright Christine Evans, we are invited to witness the strange and invisible ways people are drawn together and pulled apart—and flung towards the catastrophic release that might return them home.

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Press

"Cloudless is a deeply beautiful and very powerful story of love and transcendence.  The writing is both clear and simple, and deeply, richly poetic."
​– Magdalena Ball, The Compulsive Reader

“Vividly imagined…a story of love, family connection and hardship told through eight characters whose lives intersect one fateful afternoon.” – Linda Morris, SMH | Read Full Article

Beatty Park Dreaming, The West Australian Feature -William Yeoman | Read Full Article

Interview with Karena Wynn-Moylen, Arts Canvass Radio Extra! December 2, 2015 | Full Interview