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1 'I Will Go Before You in a Pillar of Fire' : Writing the Father. Father the Writer Laura Buzo , 2014 single work prose
— Appears in: Life Writing , vol. 11 no. 1 2014; (p. 121-126)
1 5 y separately published work icon Holier Than Thou Laura Buzo , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2012 Z1857907 2012 single work novel young adult ''What do you want, Hol?' Abby looks into my eyes. 'I ... I want to know that I'm using my powers for good and -' 'You want to make a dead man proud.' 'Whoa!' 'You want to put bandages over severed arteries that really need to be sewn shut. You want the moral high ground.' Holly Yarkov has a boyfriend who is a gift from the universe. She has a job that fulfils her even as it wears her down. She has a dangerously appealing co-worker, who literally plays with fire. And she has a layer of steel around her heart that is beginning to tarnish. Just as she is reaching for a future she can't quite see, Holly finds her present invaded by the past, by memories of her father's death and of her once best friend, the boy-who-never-was.

Grief and longing run like veins of quicksilver through this beautiful novel, which is at once gloriously funny and achingly sad.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 For the Older Reader - Laura Buzo Laura Buzo , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 54 no. 4 2010; (p. 10)
1 Memoirs of a Hard-Won Success Laura Buzo , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Quadrant , November vol. 54 no. 11 2010; (p. 24-27)
2 10 y separately published work icon Good Oil Love and Other Perishable Items Laura Buzo , 2010 Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2010 Z1487577 2010 single work novel young adult romance

'From the moment 15-year-old Amelia begins work on the checkout at Woolworths she is sunk, gone, lost ... head-over-heels in love with Chris. Chris is the funny, charming man-about-Woolies, but he's 21, and the six-year difference in their ages may as well be 100. Chris and Amelia talk about everything from Second Wave Feminism to Great Expectations and Alien but will he ever look at her in the way she wants him to? And if he does, will it be everything she hopes?' (From the publisher's website.)
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