Brother Fish [Hardcover] Courtenay Bryce

A young boy in Tasmania becomes obsessed with diving for abalone, spending hours underwater in the frigid Southern Ocean, learning to hold his breath until his lungs scream. As he grows more skilled, the ocean becomes both sanctuary and test — a place where he can escape the chaos of his family and prove himself against something wild and indifferent. Bryce Courtenay, the bestselling Australian author behind *The Power of One*, draws on his own childhood to craft a coming-of-age story steeped in salt spray and survival. It's about the pull of the sea, the complicated love between brothers, and what it takes to find your place in a world that won't hand you anything. For readers who love rough-edged Australian storytelling and stories where nature is as much a character as any person. Courtenay writes with the kind of unsentimental warmth that makes hard lives feel honest, not tragic.