Laura Buzo Laura Buzo i(A114611 works by)
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Laura Buzo was born and grew up in Sydney, middle of three daughters. After university, Buzo worked as a social worker in various acute and community-based mental health settings in Sydney. In 2005 she took some time away from work to start writing her first novel, Good Oil.

She is the daughter of Alex Buzo.

Most Referenced Works

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Holier Than Thou Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2012 Z1857907 2012 single work novel young adult ''What do you want, Hol?' Abby looks into my eyes. 'I ... I want to know that I'm using my powers for good and -' 'You want to make a dead man proud.' 'Whoa!' 'You want to put bandages over severed arteries that really need to be sewn shut. You want the moral high ground.' Holly Yarkov has a boyfriend who is a gift from the universe. She has a job that fulfils her even as it wears her down. She has a dangerously appealing co-worker, who literally plays with fire. And she has a layer of steel around her heart that is beginning to tarnish. Just as she is reaching for a future she can't quite see, Holly finds her present invaded by the past, by memories of her father's death and of her once best friend, the boy-who-never-was.

Grief and longing run like veins of quicksilver through this beautiful novel, which is at once gloriously funny and achingly sad.' (Publisher's blurb)
2014 highly commended Barbara Jefferis Award
y separately published work icon Good Oil Love and Other Perishable Items 2010 Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2010 Z1487577 2010 single work novel young adult romance

'From the moment 15-year-old Amelia begins work on the checkout at Woolworths she is sunk, gone, lost ... head-over-heels in love with Chris. Chris is the funny, charming man-about-Woolies, but he's 21, and the six-year difference in their ages may as well be 100. Chris and Amelia talk about everything from Second Wave Feminism to Great Expectations and Alien but will he ever look at her in the way she wants him to? And if he does, will it be everything she hopes?' (From the publisher's website.)
2011 longlisted Inky Awards — Gold Inky
2011 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Young Adults' Fiction
2008 shortlisted ABC Fiction Award
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