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Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2019 winner Queensland Literary Awards — Emerging Queensland Author - Manuscript Award for 'Henry Hamlet’s Heart'.
Awards for Works
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Where You Left Us
St Lucia
:
University of Queensland Press
,
2022
24687506
2022
single work
novel
young adult
'Cinnamon Prince is angry. She’s living at home with her rockstar father after his latest breakdown, and she’s stuck in a town where people have whispered that the Princes aren’t quite right ever since the mysterious disappearance of her Great Aunt Sadie. Not that Cinnamon cares about anyone else’s opinion. Except, she might be really starting to care what her gorgeous co-worker Daisy Leung thinks.
'Scarlett Prince is anxious. Most of the time, and also about spending the summer with her sister and barely there dad. She’s holding it together. Just. But when sister’s ex-boyfriend now-best-friend Will starts helping her search for the truth about Sadie, things get all-the ways complicated.
'Can solving the mystery fix their broken family?
'A story about healing, home and how to pick up the pieces when you feel left behind.' (Publication summary)
- 2023 shortlisted Readings Prizes — The Readings Young Adult Book Prize
- 2023 longlisted Davitt Award — Best Young Adult Book
- 2023 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature
- 2023 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Older Readers
- 2023 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Prize for Writing for Young Adults
- 2023 longlisted Indie Awards — Young Adult
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Henry Hamlet’s Heart
St Lucia
:
University of Queensland Press
,
2021
19703390
2021
single work
novel
young adult
'Henry is neurotic and insecure: academically gifted, but directionless. School captain, but largely unpopular, he navigates the social mires of the private school scene with difficulty and hilarity by hiding behind his enigmatic best friend, Lennon Cane. A photographer and football star, Lennon lives with his father. He is brilliant at most things, but highly emotionally guarded. After it becomes apparent that Len has always had feelings for Henry, the two fall in love, with both beautiful and disastrous consequences. Dealing with key themes of friendship, LGBTQI+ rights, first love, and belonging, this is a coming-of-age, coming out story with a twist.' (Publication summary)
- 2022 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature
- 2022 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Older Readers
- 2022 longlisted Indie Awards — Young Adult
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