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Publication (dd/mm/yyyy): 01/05/2013
Publisher: Random House (Woolshed Press)
Pages: 330
Source: Publisher (thanks Dot!)
Book Tunes
♪ Missy Higgins - Where I Stood ♪
♪ Meg & Dia - Just One of Those Things ♪
Book Tunes
♪ Missy Higgins - Where I Stood ♪
♪ Meg & Dia - Just One of Those Things ♪
My Rating:
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| Lovely, affecting and true. |
My thoughts
♪ You’ll never know dear, how much I love you
Please don’t take my sunshine away… ♪
Steal My Sunshine is Aussie author Emily Gale’s debut contemporary YA novel. It is a mixed bag of good – good writing, good voice, good characters, good message, good feel, good Aussie-ness. I had one problem with it, which I’ll go over later, but my connection to the characters was so strong that my overall experience was still super positive.
Steal My Sunshine follows the emotional journey of Hannah as her family begins to fall apart in more ways than one. When her dad, with whom she is closest, walks out on the family without warning, Hannah’s mum goes into reclusion while Hannah’s brother (Sam) tries to pick up the pieces. Meanwhile, Hannah’s crush on her best friend’s (Chloe) brother, Ethan, grows into something that may stir up trouble in the long run. There are also family secrets that begin with Essie, Hannah and Sam’s boisterous grandmother, that may be the key to making things right again.
