'When Mina receives an urgent call from her best friend back in Melbourne, her world is turned upside down. Her agoraphobic mother, Elaine, has left the house for the first time in twelve years. Mina drops everything to fly home, only to discover that Elaine will not talk about her sudden return to the world, nor why she's spent so much time hiding from it. Their reunion leaves Mina raking through pieces of their painful past in a bid to uncover the truth.
'Both tender and fierce, heartbreaking and funny, Kokomo is a story about how secrets and love have the power to bring us together and tear us apart.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
'Kokomo is a book about the relationships that define us: family, friends, in romance and in the workplace. Hannan’s use of language is vivid and visceral, lavish with colour.'
'Kokomo, the first novel from Adelaide-born, Melbourne-based author Victoria Hannan, is one of the year’s most anticipated Australian debuts.'
'Kokomo, Victoria Hannan’s much-anticipated debut novel, opens with an ode to a penis.' (Introduction)
'Victoria Hannan’s Kokomo – which won last year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript – is a novel about loss, exile, homecoming, family and, above all, love.'
'Kokomo, Victoria Hannan’s much-anticipated debut novel, opens with an ode to a penis.' (Introduction)
'Show Your Working is a regular column exploring how some of our favourite writers get things done. This month, we take a peek into the writing routine of author Victoria Hannan, whose debut novel Kokomo, a fierce, heartbreaking and funny story about secrets, desire and regret, is available from 28 July from Hachette.'
'Kokomo, the first novel from Adelaide-born, Melbourne-based author Victoria Hannan, is one of the year’s most anticipated Australian debuts.'
