Margot McGovern Margot McGovern i(A125866 works by)
Gender: Female
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Margot McGovern has worked towards a PhD in Creative Writing at Flinders University and has taught in the English Department there.

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y separately published work icon Neverland Sydney : Random House Australia , 2018 8573523 2018 single work novel young adult

'I forced a smile. ‘I’m not afraid.‘

'After doing herself near-fatal damage, Kit Learmonth has come home. But it’s a place she hardly recognises: the mermaids are hiding, the witch has packed up her cauldron and the pirates have sailed to more bountiful shores. In their place is Neverland and its inhabitants - damaged teens too sick to be in regular school, but not sick enough to be institutionalised, watched over by her psychiatrist uncle. And Kit is one of them.

'Kit has a choice. She can use illicit night-time adventures with her friends and mysterious new boy Rohan to avoid the truth. Or she can separate harsh reality from childhood fantasy and try to remember what happened on the night of her parents’ deaths. What really prompted her family’s departure from the island? Was there a monster who drove them away? Is the monster still there?

'The more Kit uncovers, the more she realises that perhaps she should be afraid …'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2015 shortlisted Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing For manuscript.
2020 shortlisted Festival Awards for Literature (SA) Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature South Australian Literary Awards Young Adult Fiction
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