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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Sugar
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'What’s yours is yours for a reason. Luck has nothing to do with it.

'Some people get exactly what they deserve. And, as it turns out, I deserve to be called Persephone. No simple-to-sound-out Pride-and-Prejudice-style name like Elizabeth or Jane for me. Nope. Demi had to go Greek. Define Persephone. Bringer of destruction. That pretty much sums it up.

'Persephone is angry. Angry that her life revolves around finger-prick tests, carbohydrate counts and insulin injections. Angry at Alexander Manson. Angry with her mum for lots of things, for nothing and for everything.
But most of all, she’s angry with herself. For deserving it all. Because one year ago she did something and her dad died.

'But then Persephone finds a body on a bush path, a young woman she doesn’t know but feels a strong connection to. And as she tries to find out what happened to Sylvia, Persephone begins to understand her own place in the complex interconnectedness of the universe.

'Sugar is the story of a sixteen-year-old girl trying to make sense of the life-changing events that have sent her world into a spin, her search for a reason behind it all, and ultimately her acceptance of life’s randomness.' (Publication summary)

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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Text Publishing , 2022 .
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      Extent: 288p.
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      • Published 29 March 2022
      ISBN: 9781922330741

Works about this Work

Cast Adrift : Three New Young Adult Novels Ben Chandler , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 444 2022; (p. 42-43)

— Review of Growing Up in Flames Zach Jones , 2022 single work novel ; Sugar Carly Nugent , 2022 single work novel ; That Thing I Did Allayne L. Webster , 2022 single work novel
Cast Adrift : Three New Young Adult Novels Ben Chandler , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 444 2022; (p. 42-43)

— Review of Growing Up in Flames Zach Jones , 2022 single work novel ; Sugar Carly Nugent , 2022 single work novel ; That Thing I Did Allayne L. Webster , 2022 single work novel
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