Rebecca Sparrow Rebecca Sparrow i(A21628 works by)
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Rebecca Sparrow works as a freelance writer and has a Bachelor of Business Communication from the Queensland University of Technology. She is also National Publicity Co-ordinator for The War Child Australia Team.

Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • In 2010, Rebecca Sparrow published, Find Your Tribe (and 9 Other Things I Wish I'd Known in High School), a guide for teenagers. In 2013, she published the follow-up Find Your Feet. Both information books are published by the University of Queensland Press.

    In 2015 she published Ask Me Anything (Heartfelt answers to 64 anonymous questions from teenage girls)

Personal Awards

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Joel and Cat Set the Story Straight Camberwell : Penguin , 2007 Z1397167 2007 single work novel young adult humour
2008 longlisted Inky Awards Gold Inky
y separately published work icon The Girl Most Likely St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2003 Z1004262 2003 single work novel humour

'At 17, Rachel Hill was the girl most likely to succeed. At 27, with an Honours degree and a career as a travel writer, she wonders if marriage is the only thing missing from this perfect trifecta.

'But one distrastrous life decision changes everything. Suddenly she is living back at home in her childhood bedroom – a room still celebrating 1987. She’s also working as a nanny for a surly six-year-old, proof-reading erotic fiction and crucifying movie themes on the piano.

'With Su-su-sudio in the cassette deck, Rachel tumbles head first into a ‘quarter-life’ crisis. As she revisits her idea of perfection, she finds that happiness is living the life you want to live, rather than the one you’re expected to.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2004 joint winner One Book One Brisbane
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