Readings Young Adult Prize Shortlist!
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The Readings Young Adult Prize is presented for the best new contribution to Australian youth literature from an emerging author.
SO, I have news... A Way Home, my YA novel, was recently shortlisted for the 2024 Readings Young Adult prize! And, although it’s taken me a while to post it here, I’m just as excited at the news now as when it landed.
A Way Home
Exploring youth homelessness, friendship, and living with a parent with a mental illness, this book is underpinned by the generosity of those I interviewed to inform my characters, setting, and plot. Without them and my wonderful publisher, MidnightSun Publishing, it wouldn’t exist.
Shortlisted for The Readings Young Adult Prize 2024
Sixteen-year-old Grace lives under a bridge in Melbourne’s CBD. It’s cold and wet, but hidden. Safe, at least, until she can go home.
When winter drives her to the City Library one morning, Grace meets Louie, a weird kid with his own problems, and discovers a community piano. The piano reminds Grace of her mum, a celebrated pianist whose mental illness makes life a rollercoaster — and not always a fun one.
When Grace comes up with a plan to find the help she and Mum need, life begins to look up. But things don’t work out as Grace imagines and suddenly her world’s turned upside down again, and maybe for good this time.
A Way Home is a big-hearted novel that explores the complexities of growing up with a parent who is struggling, and about the places and people we call home.
The Readings Prize Award Night 2024
Join myself and the other shortlisted authors at Readings Emporium to celebrate the news and for the announcement of the 2024 winners of the Prize. For more on the Readings Prize shortlisted books go to:
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