Breath

It's tough for me to give a rating for this book. Winton is clearly a very talented writer, from achingly acute descriptions of the interior life of a young teenage boy learning the ways of the human and natural world via surfing to the beautiful descriptions of the ocean as a force of nature. However, the last third of the book or so devolved into a totally different story that didn't fit the rest of the book in my mind. With that said, I'd like to read more of his writing.

The narrator of the audio book version did a great job and really brought the story and characters to life.