One Door Closes — Jennifer Bacia

When Marnie, Tina and Lee share a house in famous Bondi Beach they are young, driven and ambitious. Yet below the surface each has her own agenda. Marnie, strong, confident and privileged is escaping the stifling conservatism of her home town -- and a father who will forever mark her relationships with men. Tina, driven to overcome her impoverished background, promises herself a home on Sydney Harbour by the time she is thirty -- no matter what she has to do to get it. Lee dreams of showbiz success far from a suffocating life in the suburbs. When her ambitions are cut cruelly short, her daughter is meant to live them for her. A quarter of a century later the three friends learn that dreams come with no guarantees and the city is a much more dangerous place.