Cirrus@Austlit

'A brilliant debut novel from an important young Tasmanian voice.

'High school is hard enough when you’re healthy. When you’ve got some weird, undiagnosable chronic illness, it’s a special hell.

'Invisibly Grace is a contemporary young adult novel set in a fictional suburb of Launceston about a young woman with an autoimmune disease. Her family is new to the state and, to seem normal, Grace tries to hide her invisible illness at her new school. Through the course of the novel Grace makes friends and enemies, adores her sister, gets diagnosed with mixed connective tissue disorder, and looks to a future that she knows isn’t guaranteed. '  (Publication summary)

'Styx And Stones tells the story of Haedyn, the young leader of Styx, a thriving desert community beset by roaming violent gangs and rivers of lava. He’s sacrificed much to be a leader and keep his people safe, so he thinks he should be allowed to visit his sister in the land of Elend. On his return journey, he meets a runaway, and agrees to escort her back to Styx. But Vida is not an ordinary runaway and she will challenge everything Haedyn believes about being a leader, and the life he thinks he deserves to live.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.