Summary
The year is 1977, and Adrian is nine. He lives with his gran and his uncle Rory; his best friend is Clinton Tull. He loves to draw and he wants a dog; he’s afraid of quicksand and self-combustion.
Adrian watches his suburban world, but there is much he cannot understand. He does not for instance, know why three neighbourhood children might set out to buy ice-cream and never come back home …
“Far away the best new Australian piece of fiction I have read, rivalling the achieve…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143571759 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143571753 |
| Author: | Sonya Hartnett |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 27 August 2014 |
| Weight: | 170g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 128mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Popular Penguins |
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Sonya Hartnett
Sonya Hartnett’s work has won numerous Australian and international literary prizes and has been published around the world. Uniquely, she is acclaimed for her stories for adults, young adults and children.
Her accolades include:
- Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (for Of A Boy)
- The Age Book of the Year (for Of A Boy)
- Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize (for Thursday’s Child)
- Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year for both Older and Younger Readers (for Forest, The Silver Donkey, The Ghost’s Child, The Midnight Zoo and The Children of the King)
- Victorian Premier’s Literary Award (for Surrender)
- Three shortlistings for the Miles Franklin Award (for Of a Boy, Butterfly and Golden Boys)
- CILP Carnegie Medal (for The Midnight Zoo)
Hartnett is also the first Australian recipient of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (2008).
In 2021, she published her fourth picture book, Blue Flower, illustrated by Gabriel Evans, which was shortlisted for the CBCA Picture Book of the Year Award.
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