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'The latest winner of the Ampersand Prize is a genre-smashing kidnapping drama about Tamara, who's faced with an impossible choice when she falls for her captors.
'Yet this is no ordinary kidnapping. Tamara has been living on a freighter in deep space, and her kidnappers are terrifying Crowpeople – the only aliens humanity has ever encountered. No-one has ever survived a Crowpeople attack, until now – and Tamara must use everything she has just to stay alive.
'But survival always comes at a price, and there’s no handbook for this hostage crisis. As Tamara comes to know the Crowpeople's way of life, and the threats they face from humanity's exploration into deep space, she realises she has an impossible choice to make. Should she stay as the only human among the Crows, knowing she'll never see her family again … or inevitably betray her new community if she wants to escape?'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Dedication: To all the young people searching for a kinder future in a harsh world.
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[Review] In the Dark Spaces
2017
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 32 no. 4 2017; (p. 42)
— Review of In the Dark Spaces 2017 single work novel'Me and Lazella don't wanna head back to Earth. What's the point of spending a lifetime travelling to be old somewhere we never been before? who knows if the sky would look as blue through a pair of hundred year old eyes anyway. This is Tamara musing near the beginning of quite a long and complicated Space story. Tamara is an orphan brought up by her Aunt Lazella and smuggled aboard a freighter carrying phosphorous and helium from distant mining operations.' (Introduction)
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[Review] In the Dark Spaces
2017
single work
review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , September vol. 32 no. 4 2017; (p. 42)
— Review of In the Dark Spaces 2017 single work novel'Me and Lazella don't wanna head back to Earth. What's the point of spending a lifetime travelling to be old somewhere we never been before? who knows if the sky would look as blue through a pair of hundred year old eyes anyway. This is Tamara musing near the beginning of quite a long and complicated Space story. Tamara is an orphan brought up by her Aunt Lazella and smuggled aboard a freighter carrying phosphorous and helium from distant mining operations.' (Introduction)
Awards
- 2019 shortlisted REAL Awards — Fiction for Years 7-9
- 2019 shortlisted West Australian Young Readers' Book Award — Older Readers
- 2018 shortlisted Ditmar Awards — Best Novel
- 2018 highly commended Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Prize for Writing for Young Adults
- 2018 winner Queensland Literary Awards — Griffith University Young Adult Book Award
