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'What’s yours is yours for a reason. Luck has nothing to do with it.
'Some people get exactly what they deserve. And, as it turns out, I deserve to be called Persephone. No simple-to-sound-out Pride-and-Prejudice-style name like Elizabeth or Jane for me. Nope. Demi had to go Greek. Define Persephone. Bringer of destruction. That pretty much sums it up.
'Persephone is angry. Angry that her life revolves around finger-prick tests, carbohydrate counts and insulin injections. Angry at Alexander Manson. Angry with her mum for lots of things, for nothing and for everything.
But most of all, she’s angry with herself. For deserving it all. Because one year ago she did something and her dad died.
'But then Persephone finds a body on a bush path, a young woman she doesn’t know but feels a strong connection to. And as she tries to find out what happened to Sylvia, Persephone begins to understand her own place in the complex interconnectedness of the universe.
'Sugar is the story of a sixteen-year-old girl trying to make sense of the life-changing events that have sent her world into a spin, her search for a reason behind it all, and ultimately her acceptance of life’s randomness.' (Publication summary)
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Works about this Work
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Cast Adrift : Three New Young Adult Novels
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 444 2022; (p. 42-43)
— Review of Growing Up in Flames 2022 single work novel ; Sugar 2022 single work novel ; That Thing I Did 2022 single work novel
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Cast Adrift : Three New Young Adult Novels
2022
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 444 2022; (p. 42-43)
— Review of Growing Up in Flames 2022 single work novel ; Sugar 2022 single work novel ; That Thing I Did 2022 single work novel
Awards
- 2023 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Young Adults' Fiction
- 2023 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian Book of the Year for Older Children
- 2023 winner APA Book Design Awards — Best Designed Young Adult Book designed by Imogen Stubbs.
- 2023 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature
- 2023 highly commended Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Prize for Writing for Young Adults