Breath - Tim Winton

When paramedic Bruce Pike is called out to deal with another teenage adventure gone wrong, he knows better than his partner - better than the parents - what happened and how. Thirty years before, that dead boy could have been him.

'An absorbing, powerful and deeply beautiful novel, a meditation on surfing which becomes a rumination about the very stuff of existence.'
Helen Gordon, THE OBSERVER

Who's your Tim Winton?  He's a keen observer of people and places, passionate environmentalist but intensley private.