The quiet and the loud / Helena Fox.
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TextPublisher: Sydney, New South Wales : Pan Macmillan Australia, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: 380 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781760983024Subject(s): Families -- Juvenile fiction | Mental illness -- Juvenile fiction | Depression, Mental -- Juvenile fiction | Forgiveness -- Juvenile fictionGenre/Form: Australian fiction. | Domestic fiction. | Young adult fiction. DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: A powerful, lyrical novel about friendship, family, forgiveness, trauma, love and our hopeless, hopeful world. George's life is loud. On the water, though, with everything hushed above and below, George is steady, silent. Then her estranged dad says he needs to talk and George's past begins to wake, looping around her ankles, trying to drag her under. But there's no time to sink. George's best friend, Tess, is about to become a teen mum, her friend Laz is in deep climate grief, her gramps keeps losing all his things, and her mums fill the house with fuss and chatter. Before long, heat and smoke join the noise as distant wildfires begin to burn. Everything is loud, blazing, messy. Could Calliope, the girl who has just cartwheeled into George's world and shot it through with dazzling colour, be her calm amidst the chaos?
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Young Adult | JF FOX (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111085946182 |
"Can she move forward without looking back?"-- Cover.
"Content notes: Please be aware that this story references topics such as domestic violence, emotional abuse, addiction, anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Complex PTSD, and catastrophic fire." -- Page facing imprint page.
15+ years.
A powerful, lyrical novel about friendship, family, forgiveness, trauma, love and our hopeless, hopeful world. George's life is loud. On the water, though, with everything hushed above and below, George is steady, silent. Then her estranged dad says he needs to talk and George's past begins to wake, looping around her ankles, trying to drag her under. But there's no time to sink. George's best friend, Tess, is about to become a teen mum, her friend Laz is in deep climate grief, her gramps keeps losing all his things, and her mums fill the house with fuss and chatter. Before long, heat and smoke join the noise as distant wildfires begin to burn. Everything is loud, blazing, messy. Could Calliope, the girl who has just cartwheeled into George's world and shot it through with dazzling colour, be her calm amidst the chaos?
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