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ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Grace is a very successful music manager, whose biggest client is a truckload of needy but who pays in the millions. She lives in a very nice place in Mosman, with her moderately successful artist husband Ed and their two children, or she lives in another very nice place in London when work calls her overseas. Life should be wonderful, but Ed has walked out on her and she's having trouble without him to manage the kids and the house. On a trip to her parents in Bullaburra, she gets in to a bit of a mess when the pet dachshund is run over and the person who offers assistance is an ex-boyfriend – in fact, the only other man she ever loved, who broke her heart more than twenty years ago, and in spite of herself (or more accurately, to spite her mother!) meets up with him again.
Told in flashbacks and the current time, this is a beautifully written story about a woman who needs to be needed but who can't really give too much of herself to others.
Zorn is an award-winning YA novelist, and this, her first novel for adult readers, is warm and tender reflection on growing up and into the responsibility of adulthood – and at times is quite funny too. Lindy
Claire Zorn is the multi-award-winning author of four books for young adults and the author/illustrator of one picture book. She lives on the south coast of New South Wales with her husband and two sons. Her first young adult novel, The Sky So Heavy, was a 2014 Children's Book Council of Australia Honour Book for Older Readers, shortlisted in the 2013 Aurealis Awards - Best Young Adult Novel and shortlisted in the 2014 Inky Awards. Her second young adult novel, The Protected, was the winner of four awards: the 2015 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction; the 2015 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards - Young Adult Fiction Prize; the 2015 Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year for Older Readers; and the 2016 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards - Young Adult. It was also shortlisted in the 2015 Inky Awards. Her third book for young adults, One Would Think the Deep was awarded the 2017 Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year for Older Readers. When We Are Invisible is her latest novel for young adults, and the sequel to The Sky So Heavy. Better Days is Claire's first novel for adults.
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Grace is a very successful music manager, whose biggest client is a truckload of needy but who pays in the millions. She lives in a very nice place in Mosman, with her moderately successful artist husband Ed and their two children, or she lives in another very nice place in London when work calls her overseas. Life should be wonderful, but Ed has walked out on her and she's having trouble without him to manage the kids and the house. On a trip to her parents in Bullaburra, she gets in to a bit of a mess when the pet dachshund is run over and the person who offers assistance is an ex-boyfriend – in fact, the only other man she ever loved, who broke her heart more than twenty years ago, and in spite of herself (or more accurately, to spite her mother!) meets up with him again.
Told in flashbacks and the current time, this is a beautifully written story about a woman who needs to be needed but who can't really give too much of herself to others.
Zorn is an award-winning YA novelist, and this, her first novel for adult readers, is warm and tender reflection on growing up and into the responsibility of adulthood – and at times is quite funny too. Lindy
