Skimming stones / Maria Papas.
Material type: TextPublisher: Fremantle, WA : Fremantle Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 205 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781760990640; 1760990647Subject(s): Nurses -- Australia -- Fiction | Teenagers -- Australia -- Fiction | Families -- Australia -- Fiction | Leukaemia -- Patients -- Fiction | Siblings -- Fiction | Brothers and sisters -- Fiction | Families -- Fiction | Cancer -- Patients -- Fiction | Nurses -- Fiction | Adultery -- Fiction | Man-woman relationships -- Fiction | Cancer -- Patients -- Family relationships -- FictionGenre/Form: Australian fiction. | Domestic fiction. DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: Skimming Stones is about the bond forged by two teenagers hovering on the periphery of their siblings' illness and it captures some of those unseen long-term changes wrought in families affected by cancer. The novel is told from the perspective of Grace, a nurse, who runs into Nate, a boy whose family lived nearby. The connection they had as teenagers - both helpless witnesses to the progression of their siblings' leukaemia - is reaffirmed in adulthood and a new love story between them begins. This is a novel of affirmation and resilience.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Skimming Stones is about the bond forged by two teenagers hovering on the periphery of their siblings' illness and it captures some of those unseen long-term changes wrought in families affected by cancer. The novel is told from the perspective of Grace, a nurse, who runs into Nate, a boy whose family lived nearby. The connection they had as teenagers - both helpless witnesses to the progression of their siblings' leukaemia - is reaffirmed in adulthood and a new love story between them begins. This is a novel of affirmation and resilience.
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