![]() ![]() ![]() Early in their relationship the couple try to detox separately, with the narrator staying in Sydney while Candy returns home to Melbourne to stay clean. In 2006 the novel was adapted into a movie directed by Neil Armfield from a script by Davies starring Heath Ledger as the narrator and Abbie Cornish as Candy.Īn unnamed narrator who is addicted to heroin introduces his beloved blonde girlfriend, Candy, to the drug. The novel was loosely based on Luke Davies' own troubles with addiction and after the release of a movie adaptation of the novel Australian painter Megan Bannister, Davies' ex-wife, identified herself as the inspiration for Candy. The novel follows an unnamed narrator and his relationship with Candy, his girlfriend and later wife, and their addiction to heroin. ![]() Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction (1997) is a novel by Luke Davies. ![]()
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