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The Quiet and the Loud
Sydney
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Pan Macmillan Australia
,
2023
25675511
2023
single work
novel
young adult
'OUR HOPELESS, HOPEFUL WORLD
'A novel about the contours of friendship, family, forgiveness, trauma and love that explores the stories we suppress and the stories we speak-and the healing that comes when we voice the things we've kept quiet for so long.
'George's life is loud. On the water, though, with everything hushed above and below, she is steady, silent. Then her estranged dad says he needs to talk, and George's past begins to wake up, looping around her ankles, trying to drag her under.
'Everything is a blaring, blazing mess. Could Calliope, the girl who has just cartwheeled into George's world and shot it through with brilliant, dazzling colour, be her calm among the chaos?' (Publication summary)
- 2024 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian Book of the Year for Older Children
- 2024 shortlisted CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year: Older Readers
- 2024 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Older Readers
- 2024 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Prize for Writing for Young Adults
- 2023 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards — Griffith University Young Adult Book Award
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How It Feels to Float
Sydney
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Pan Macmillan Australia
,
2019
15644206
2019
single work
novel
young adult
'Biz knows how to float. She has her people, her posse, her mom and the twins. She has Grace. And she has her dad, who tells her about the little kid she was, who loves her so hard, and who shouldn’t be here but is. So Biz doesn’t tell anyone anything. Not about her dark, runaway thoughts, not about kissing Grace or noticing Jasper, the new boy. And she doesn’t tell anyone about her dad. Because her dad died when she was seven. And Biz knows how to float, right there on the surface–normal okay regular fine.
'But after what happens on the beach–first in the ocean, and then in the sand–the tethers that hold Biz steady come undone. Dad disappears and, with him, all comfort. It might be easier, better, sweeter to float all the way away? Or maybe stay a little longer, find her father, bring him back to her. Or maybe–maybe maybe maybe–there’s a third way Biz just can’t see yet.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
- 2020 winner Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Young Adults' Fiction
- 2020 shortlisted CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year: Older Readers
- 2020 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature
- 2020 longlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian Book of the Year for Older Children
- 2020 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Older Readers
- 2020 longlisted Indie Awards — Young Adult
- 2020 winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Prize for Writing for Young Adults
- 2019 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards — Griffith University Young Adult Book Award